{"type":"trials","record":{"id":42397,"source_id":"clinicaltrials-gov","external_id":"NCT03208608","title":"The RBANS-H in Older Adults With Normal Hearing or Age-related Hearing Loss","brief_summary":"The present cross-sectional study aims to examine the cognitive capabilities of older adults, aged 50 to 89, with normal hearing or age-related hearing loss by means of the Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status for Hearing impaired individuals (RBANS-H). Secondly, the correlations between cognition on the one hand and hearing and speech reception capabilities on the other hand are investigated. For this purpose, twenty participants are included in the age categories 50 to 59, 60 to 69, 70 to 79 and 80 to 89, bringing the total number to 80. Three questionnaires are administered to the participants: the Health Utilities Index-2/3 (HUI 2/3), Dizziness Handicap Inventory (DHI) and a general questionnaire on education and profession, medical history, hearing aid use and tinnitus. Also an audiological examination is performed, including pure tone audiometry, speech in quiet and speech in noise audiometry. Finally, cognition is assessed using the RBANS-H.","overall_status":"Unknown","phases":[],"study_type":"OBSERVATIONAL","sponsor":"University Hospital, Antwerp","enrollment":80,"countries":["Belgium"],"start_date":"2016-11-21","completion_date":"2017-10-01","last_update_date":"2017-07-05","source_url":"https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT03208608","editorial_summary":"A registered study indexed because it matched monitored longevity research terms. Registry status: Unknown. Registration does not establish safety or effectiveness.","first_seen_at":"2026-09-25T01:25:34.048307+00:00","last_seen_at":"2026-09-25T06:25:04.647+00:00","metadata":{"sex":"ALL","acronym":"RBANS-H_ARHL","age_range":"50 Years to 89 Years","comparator":null,"organization":"University Hospital, Antwerp","interventions":["RBANS-H"],"registry_source":"ClinicalTrials.gov","outcome_measures":["RBANS-H total scaled score — Baseline","RBANS-H index scores — Baseline","Free field best aided speech in noise audiometry: Speech Reception Threshold (SRT) — Baseline","Free field best aided speech in quiet audiometry (phoneme score): SRT — Baseline","Free field best aided hearing thresholds: Fletcher Index (FI) — Baseline","Health Utilities Index-2/3 (HUI 2/3) — Baseline","Dizziness Handicap Inventory (DHI) — Baseline","General questionnaire — Baseline"],"design_description":null,"source_has_results":false},"controlled_terms":["Normal Hearing","RBANS-H"],"relevance_confidence":100,"source_quality_score":100,"freshness_score":50,"publication_state":"published","match_explanation":"Title contains controlled term: age-related hearing loss.","quality_checked_at":"2026-09-25T06:25:07.732232+00:00","duplicate_cluster_key":"id:nct03208608","duplicate_of_id":null,"evidence_snapshot":{"status":"structured","version":1,"duration":"2016-11-21 to 2017-10-01","comparator":null,"confidence":"structured-source","population":"ALL · 50 Years to 89 Years","provenance":{"duration":"start_date and completion_date","comparator":"registry arm fields","population":"registry eligibility fields","intervention":"registry intervention fields","participants":"enrollment","study_design":"study_type and registry design fields","evidence_stage":"phases","reported_outcome":"not available","outcomes_measured":"registry outcome-measure fields"},"generated_at":"2026-09-25T06:25:04.669Z","intervention":["RBANS-H"],"participants":80,"study_design":"OBSERVATIONAL","subject_scope":"Human clinical study registration","evidence_stage":"Phase not reported","safety_context":"Eligibility, adverse-event details, and clinical decisions must be checked in the official registry and with qualified clinicians.","source_support":"Structured registry protocol metadata; no finding-level conclusion is generated.","main_limitation":"This is a study registration. No reusable structured result is available here, so it cannot show whether the intervention worked or was safe.","reported_outcome":null,"outcomes_measured":["RBANS-H total scaled score — Baseline","RBANS-H index scores — Baseline","Free field best aided speech in noise audiometry: Speech Reception Threshold (SRT) — Baseline","Free field best aided speech in quiet audiometry (phoneme score): SRT — Baseline","Free field best aided hearing thresholds: Fletcher Index (FI) — Baseline","Health Utilities Index-2/3 (HUI 2/3) — Baseline","Dizziness Handicap Inventory (DHI) — Baseline","General questionnaire — Baseline"],"regulatory_context":"Trial registration is not regulatory approval and does not establish that an intervention is available."},"clinical_trial_topics":[{"topic_slug":"hearing-aging","is_published":true,"match_reasons":["Title contains controlled term: age-related hearing loss.","Abstract contains controlled term: age-related hearing loss.","Title supplies longevity context: age-related, older adult.","Study type is explicitly identified as OBSERVATIONAL."],"matched_fields":["title","abstract","title context","study type"],"relevance_score":100,"intelligence_topics":{"name":"Hearing ageing","slug":"hearing-aging"}}],"content_sources":{"name":"ClinicalTrials.gov","homepage_url":"https://clinicaltrials.gov/"}},"canonical_url":"https://www.immortal.life/trials/42397","automation_disclosure":"Generated automatically from cited source metadata. No scientist, clinician, researcher, editor, or human reviewer evaluates this publication before release."}