A Comparison of Hearing Aid Noise Programs on Speech Intelligibility

Sonova

Status: Invitation-only

Conditions: Hearing Loss, Bilateral or Unilateral

Treatments: Device: Phonak Audeo Infinio Hearing Aid

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Industry

Identifiers

NCT06957730

SRF-29404

Details and patient eligibility

About

Hearing impaired participants will be fit with study devices which will have three different hearing aid programs. Speech intelligibility will be measured using validated tests for each of the three hearing aid programs. The order of the hearing aid programs will be randomized across participants and each participant will be blinded as to the programs being tested.

Full description

Program 1 is the current default in the commercially available devices. Programs 2 and 3 are being tested against the current default.

Enrollment: 17 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 95 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Bilateral moderate to severe hearing loss (N3-N4)
• Experienced hearing aid user
• Fluent in English
• Cognitively able to complete complex listening tasks

Exclusion criteria

• Unilateral hearing loss
• New hearing aid user
• Unable or unwilling to complete complex listening tasks

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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17 participants in 1 patient group

Phonak Audeo RIC

Experimental group

Description:

All participants are fit with the Audeo RIC hearing aids, which are programmed with three different settings. All participants are tested with all three settings.

Treatment:

Device: Phonak Audeo Infinio Hearing Aid