Evaluating Benefits of Hearing Aid Microphone Directionality Technologies

Sonova

Status: Completed

Conditions: Hearing Loss

Treatments: Device: Phonak hearing aid with multiple directionality settings, adjustable via a mobile app; Device: Phonak Audeo hearing aid

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Industry

Identifiers

NCT04953390

SRF-369

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study will evaluate the impact of hearing aid microphone directionality technologies and settings on speech understanding in noise for experienced hearing aid users. It will also evaluate the participant's spatial awareness of sounds using these different hearing aid microphone directionality technologies.

Enrollment: 19 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 90 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 18 years or older
• experienced hearing aid users
• moderate to moderate severe sensorineural symmetrical hearing loss defined as a difference of less than 10 dB between ears
• must be able to use app and smart phone

Exclusion criteria

• asymmetrical hearing losses
• unable or unwilling to use app and smart phone

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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19 participants in 1 patient group

Experimental

Experimental group

Description:

All study participants wearing study devices and evaluating three different microphone settings in simulated noise environments in lab, and using study devices during home trial period.

Treatment:

Device: Phonak Audeo hearing aid

Device: Phonak hearing aid with multiple directionality settings, adjustable via a mobile app