INSPIRES Hearing Health Trial - INnovative Psychological Intervention to REduce Stigma in Hearing Health Trial
Last updated on July 2021Recruitment
- Recruitment Status
- Recruiting
- Estimated Enrollment
- Same as current
Summary
- Conditions
- Hearing Loss
- Type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Design
- Allocation: RandomizedIntervention Model: Parallel AssignmentMasking: Triple (Participant, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)Primary Purpose: Prevention
Participation Requirements
- Age
- Between 60 years and 125 years
- Gender
- Both males and females
Description
According to self-affirmation theory, defensiveness arises because people are motivated to defend their global sense of self-worth, which in the present case is threatened by perceptions of hearing aids/loss. However, if a person's self-image can be bolstered (affirmed) in a domain that is important...
According to self-affirmation theory, defensiveness arises because people are motivated to defend their global sense of self-worth, which in the present case is threatened by perceptions of hearing aids/loss. However, if a person's self-image can be bolstered (affirmed) in a domain that is important to them, thereby preserving self-integrity, the individual should be less likely to process the threatening (i.e., stigmatizing in the present context) information defensively. Accumulated empirical evidence demonstrates that affirming the self: (a) reduces public stigma, (b) reduces self-stigma, and (c) causes meaningful changes in behaviour. Following a pilot-feasibility trial showing that self-affirming caused significant reductions in first-time hearing aid users' anxieties about ageing and increased their hearing aid use by almost 2 hours/day.
Tracking Information
- NCT #
- NCT04680845
- Collaborators
- Not Provided
- Investigators
- Study Chair: Kevin Munro, PhD University of Manchester
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