Hearing Aid Signal Processing Comparative Study

Sonova

Status: Completed

Conditions: Hearing Loss, Sensorineural

Treatments: Device: Receiver-in-canal hearing instrument; Manufacturer B; Device: Receiver-in-canal hearing instrument; Manufacturer A

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Industry

Identifiers

NCT04839289

SRF-311

Details and patient eligibility

About

Participants will be fit with each of two hearing instruments in an ABA cross-over design. The study will consist of a total of three approximately 10-day home trials with the devices. Participants will be asked to provide qualitative feedback to investigators regarding the performance of and their preference for each hearing instrument.

Enrollment: 27 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 100 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Moderate to severe sensorineural hearing loss
• Current hearing aid user

Exclusion criteria

• Lack of willingness to wear study devices for approximately one month
• Inability to travel to study appointments or to complete questionnaires.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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27 participants in 2 patient groups

A-B-A

Experimental group

Description:

Participants will be fit with hearing instruments A and B in the following order: Hearing instrument A Hearing instrument B Hearing instrument A

Treatment:

Device: Receiver-in-canal hearing instrument; Manufacturer B

Device: Receiver-in-canal hearing instrument; Manufacturer A

B-A-B

Experimental group

Description:

Participants will be fit with hearing instruments A and B in the following order: Hearing instrument B Hearing instrument A Hearing instrument B

Treatment:

Device: Receiver-in-canal hearing instrument; Manufacturer B

Device: Receiver-in-canal hearing instrument; Manufacturer A