Evaluation of Investigational Hearing Instrument Features

Sonova

Status: Not yet enrolling

Conditions: Hearing Loss

Treatments: Device: Hearing instrument

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Industry

Identifiers

NCT06710236

SRF-26463

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this clinical trial is to learn how hearing instruments perform in varying environmental settings in adults with hearing loss. The main questions it aims to answer are:

How do varying versions of hearing instrument features perform based on exposure to different environments? What is the hearing instrument user preference between varying versions of hearing instrument features?

Participants will be fit with hearing instruments in the lab, and asked to wear them for the duration of the study period in their home environment. Participants will be asked to answer questionnaires throughout the study period.

Enrollment: 20 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 95 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Adult, age 18 - 95 years
• N4 hearing loss
• Experienced hearing aid user
• English fluency
• Cognitively able to complete complex listening tasks

Exclusion criteria

• Normal hearing, or hearing loss outside the specified range
• No hearing aid experience
• Unable to speak, read, or write English fluently
• Cognitive impairment
• Any other condition or situation that impacts eligibility to participate in or complete study tasks, at the discretion of the investigator

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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20 participants in 1 patient group

Hearing Aid Users

Experimental group

Description:

Participants will wear hearing instruments for the duration of the study period. They will be asked to complete questionnaires about their environment and experience.

Treatment:

Device: Hearing instrument