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Posts by Adele Horobin

Sound-sensitivity in children

Is your child sensitive to sound? Please help us test a new clinical questionnaire. What is sound-sensitivity? Sound-sensitivity (also known as hyperacusis) is common in children. It is where they experience distress or pain when hearing some everyday sounds. For example, they may struggle with the normal sounds present at home (e.g. hoover) and outside …

Hyperacusis in children

Is your child sensitive to sound (called hyperacusis) Or are you a clinician who works with children who are sensitive to sound?   WE HAVE COMPLETED THIS PART OF THE STUDY WITH CLINICIANS. WE ARE NOW RECRUITING PARENTS AND HAVE A NEW POST ON 24 JANUARY 2023 TO EXPLAIN.   Please help us in designing …

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COVID and hearing – please help us

Have you had COVID before? Do you feel this has affected your hearing and balance or had no effect at all? Seventeen more volunteers needed to complete our study on COVID and hearing! Could you be one of them?   It is two years to the day since the first national UK COVID lockdown was …

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Patients and public leading at the crossover of mental health and hearing

Hearing and mental health overlap For what remain as ‘hidden’ disabilities, hearing and mental health conditions are incredibly common: 1.6 billion people live with hearing loss, while 792 million people are affected by mental health issues. Despite their prevalence, social stigma is attached to both and there is little public understanding of their impact. Also, …

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Use hearing aids but struggle to hear well enough? Take part in the COACH trial.

Take part in research comparing hearing aids to a cochlear implant in adults with severe to profound deafness. NICE (National Institute for Health and Care Excellence) examines all the evidence to decide guidelines for clinical treatment. Based on the current evidence, adults may be offered a cochlear implant on the NHS when they have at …

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Participant to partner: a research journey

                Katrina Copping uses hearing aids to help with her hearing loss and tinnitus.  Katrina is working alongside researchers at the Nottingham Biomedical Research Centre (Hearing Theme) as a Patient Research Partner.  Emma Broome is a Research Fellow at the Biomedical Research Centre.  In this blog, Katrina and …

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Helping research improve treatments for single-sided deafness more quickly – An agreement on what is important to measure

Roulla Katiri, on behalf of the CROSSSD initiative, for Hearing Matters UoN blog. Much clinical research sets out to improve and develop new treatments for health conditions. But usually, no one piece of research is enough to be sure which treatments are best. We need to build up a body of many different research studies …

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Using apps to help manage your tinnitus

It is #TinnitusWeek this week. We are continuing with our tinnitus research and you can read more about what we are doing at: https://nottinghambrc.nihr.ac.uk/about-nottingham-brc/news/3777-hearing-theme-raising-awareness-of-tinnitus-as-numbers-of-patients-predicted-to-rise. We thought we would take this opportunity to highlight one way that people might find helpful for managing their tinnitus. Do you have a smartphone or tablet? Do you know that …

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