Noise Reduction Preferences in Teenagers and Pre-teens

Sonova

Status: Completed

Conditions: Hearing Loss

Treatments: Device: Phonak Hearing Aid

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; Industry

Identifiers

NCT05372094

SRF-802

Details and patient eligibility

About

Noise reduction preferences and blue tooth access to hearing aid streaming features will be evaluated in experienced hearing aid users age 10-17.

Full description

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the preferences for hearing aid noise reduction settings in users age 10 -17, as well as to evaluate preferences for accessing the hearing aid Bluetooth streaming programs for this population. Subjective preferences will be obtained by having the participants listen to a noisy scene with different levels of noise reduction, to which they are blinded, and rate their preference. Blinded objective speech performance testing will be completed by a) finding the signal-to-noise ratio at which participant can correctly repeat back 50% of the target words, and b) measuring the percent of words correctly repeated during a noisy listening task. These tasks will be done using different levels of noise reduction. Subjective preferences for accessing Bluetooth streaming will also be obtained by asking participants which method they prefer (phone, hearing aid, or touch control).

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Enrollment: 18 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 10 to 17 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• mild, moderate, or moderate-severe bilateral sensorineural hearing loss
• native English speakers with ability to communicate verbally
• able to read and follow directions
• access to smartphone and willing to download a hearing aid app
• experienced hearing aid user (6+ months)

Exclusion criteria

• unable to follow verbal directions
• unable to communicate verbally
• unable to wear study devices for required home trials
• active middle ear infection
• unable to attend lab visits required for study

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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18 participants in 1 patient group

Experimental

Experimental group

Description:

Participants will be fit with a commercially available hearing aid and tested using various strengths of the noise reduction feature.

Treatment:

Device: Phonak Hearing Aid