Evaluation of the Effect of a Spatial Localization Training Program on Auditory Comprehension (CAudiBruit)

Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de la Réunion

Status: Completed

Conditions: Hearing Loss, Cochlear

Treatments: Other: spatial localisation training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05237180

2021/CHU/32

Details and patient eligibility

About

Hearing comprehension under complex listening conditions is considered to be the central complaint of everyday life for patients with cochlear implants. Localization is one of the cues for listening comprehension. However, only few studies have investigated the effect of spatial localization training on listening comprehension performance in noise. None of these studies correspond to the desire to purpose training by speech therapists while using affordable equipment.

The main objective of this study is to evaluate the effect of a spatial localization training protocol in cochlear bi-implanted subjects with post-lingual deafness on their ability to understand in noise.

2 groups of 10 subjects each will be recruited: a patient group and a control group. The patient group will undergo 8 sessions of spatial localization rehabilitation lasting an average of 45 minutes each.

After this programme, the pre-test and post- test results obtained will be compared.

Enrollment: 12 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 12+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• post-lingual deafness
• implanted bilaterally for at least 1 year
• score ≥ 70 at LAFON scale
• score ≥ 70 at MBAA scale
• score ≥ 5/9 at CAP scale
• good command of the French language
• accepts to participate in the study

Exclusion criteria

• do not realize speech reeducation (spatial localisation and speech perception) during the study
• no change in setting of cochlear implants

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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12 participants in 2 patient groups

patient group

Experimental group

Description:

8 training sessions on spatial localisation

Treatment:

Other: spatial localisation training

control croup

No Intervention group

Description:

Non training sessions