Evaluation of Efficacy and Patient Acceptance of Sound Amplifier Téo First, in Mild and Moderate Presbycusis Patient 60 Years of Age and Older, With no Previous Hearing Aid (TEO FIRST)

Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nice

Status: Completed

Conditions: Mild and Moderate Presbycusis

Treatments: Device: Use of a personal sound amplifying device = TeoFirst

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01815788

12-PP-17

Details and patient eligibility

About

A personal sound amplifying device (PASP) like Teo First is a wearable electronic product that is not intended to compensate for impaired hearing, but rather is intended for non-hearing impaired consumers to amplify sounds in the environment for a number of reasons, such as for recreational activities. Nevertheless, a lot of mild and moderate impaired hearing people don't want to buy and wear all day a real hearing aid.

The goal of our study is to evaluate the benefit of such a device for mild and moderate presbycusis patient 60 years of age and older, with no previous hearing aid.

Enrollment: 31 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 60 to 100 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Wish to increase hearing
• Moral commitment to use the device
• Ability to understand the study
• Mild and moderate presbycusis (20 to 50 dB average hearing loss at 500, 1000, 2000 Hz and 4000 Hz)
• Patient 60 years of age and older,
• No previous hearing aid

Exclusion criteria

• Inability to use the device
• Previous use of a hearing aid
• local intolerance

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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31 participants in 1 patient group

Teo first

Experimental group

Description:

* Mild and moderate presbycusis (20 to 50 dB average hearing loss at 500, 1000, 2000 Hz and 4000 Hz) * Patient 60 years of age and older, * No previous hearing aid

Treatment:

Device: Use of a personal sound amplifying device = TeoFirst