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That is, training will be self-paced and administered by the participants themselves at home using a computer. A software program has been created to facilitate the administration. Participants will spend one hour per day and five days per week for 4 weeks on training.\n\nDuring the training, the following two adaptive tasks will be administered simultaneously: repeating the sentences masked by noise (i.e., AT component) and recalling the first or the final two words of all sentences in a given sentence set (i.e., WMT component).",[13],"Behavioral: Auditory-working memory training program",{"label":15,"type":16,"description":17,"interventionNames":18},"Adaptive Auditory training group","ACTIVE_COMPARATOR","The sentences used in the AT program are the same as those in the AT-WMT program. However, only the AT component (i.e., adaptive sentence perception in noise) of the AT-WMT program is required in the AT program. Participants do not need to recall the first or the final two words of the sentences. The same software in the experimental group will be used. Participants will spend one hour per day and five days per week for 4 weeks on training.",[19],"Behavioral: Auditory training program",{"label":21,"type":22,"description":23,"interventionNames":24},"Mindfulness training group","PLACEBO_COMPARATOR","Participants in this group will participate in a mindfulness training program using newlife.330 (Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association, 2018) which is a Cantonese online platform for self-guided mindfulness training. The time and computer use of the active-control group will match to those of the above two groups.",[25],"Behavioral: Mindfulness training program",[27,33,37],{"type":28,"name":29,"description":30,"armGroupLabels":31,"otherNames":32},"BEHAVIORAL","Auditory-working memory training program","The AT-WMT program is comprised of 1,200 daily used sentences either created or selected from newspapers, books, TV programs and magazines by the research assistants. The sentences are political-, cultural-, and religious-neutral sentences. Each of them contains 10 words. Noise was recorded from the upper and lower decks of a bus, in a café, a Chinese restaurant, an MTR (the Mass Transit Railway) carriage, and from a street.\n\nDuring the training, the following two adaptive tasks will be administered simultaneously: repeating the sentences masked by noise (i.e., AT component) and recalling the first or the final two words of all sentences in a given sentence set (i.e., WMT component).",[9],null,{"type":28,"name":34,"description":35,"armGroupLabels":36,"otherNames":32},"Auditory training program","During the training, an adaptive speech-in-noise perception task will be administered. Specifically, the sentences in a sentence set will be presented binaurally using a headphone at a level the listeners felt is comfortable. The trainees are expected to immediately repeat each noise-masked sentence after hearing it. If they cannot repeat the sentence, then the sound intensity of the noise will be automatically decreased (step size = 2 dB) until the sentence can be correctly repeated. If the sentence can be repeated at the first attempt, then the intensity of the noise will be automatically increased by 2 dB in the next sentence. To provide feedback, the targeted sentence will be replaced by an asterisk and only shown after clicking the sentence.",[15],{"type":28,"name":38,"description":39,"armGroupLabels":40,"otherNames":32},"Mindfulness training program","Participants in this group will participate in a mindfulness training program using newlife.330 (Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association, 2018) which is a Cantonese online platform for self-guided mindfulness training.",[21],[42],{"name":43,"affiliation":44,"role":45},"Chen Yuan, PhD","The Education University of Hong Kong","PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR",[47],{"name":48,"role":49,"phone":50,"phoneExt":32,"email":51},"Yuan Chen, PhD","CONTACT","59871023","cheny@eduhk.hk",{"type":53,"investigatorFullName":32,"investigatorTitle":32,"investigatorAffiliation":32,"oldNameTitle":32,"oldOrganization":32},"SPONSOR","100469934","efficacy-of-auditory-training-and-combined-auditory-working-memory-training-in-improving-communication-in-older-adults-100469934",false,"NCT05399264","Efficacy of Auditory Training and Combined Auditory-working-memory Training in Improving Communication in Older Adults","Efficacy of Auditory Training and Combined Auditory-working-memory Training in Improving Communication and Cognition in Older Adults With Untreated Mild-to-moderate Sensorineural Hearing Impairment","Inclusion Criteria:\n\n* Native Cantonese speakers and having been living in Hong Kong for at least 20 years.\n* Aged between 55 and 80 years.\n* Normal cognitive function, as screened with the Hong Kong version of Montreal Cognitive Assessment (HK-MoCA) with a cutoff of 18\u002F19.\n* Mild-to-moderate sensorineural HI, in which the four-frequency pure-tone average at 500, 1000, 2000, and 4000 Hz of the better ear is between 26 and 55 dB HL.\n\nExclusion Criteria:\n\n* Outer or middle ear pathologies.\n* Wearing hearing aids or cochlear implants.\n* No computers and internet access at home.","ALL","55 Years","80 Years",{"count":65,"type":66},120,"ESTIMATED","INTERVENTIONAL",[69],"NA","Using a randomized controlled trial, we are going to examine whether a training program that incorporates both auditory training and working memory training (AT-WMT) would generate significantly better results in communication and cognition than an auditory training program and a mindfulness training program (active-control). Participants are 120 older adults (40 per group) with untreated mild-to-moderate sensorineural hearing impairment .",[72],"Hearing Loss",[74,75,76,77,78],"Auditory training","Working memory","Speech perception","Older adults","Hearing loss","NOT_YET_RECRUITING","2022-05-29",{"date":82,"type":83},"2022-06-01","ACTUAL",{"date":85,"type":66},"2023-06",{"date":87,"type":66},"2026-12",{"name":5,"class":6}]