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Pre-calculation for Frequency Lowering With Hearing Devices

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Sonova

Status

Completed

Conditions

Frequency Lowering

Treatments

Other: Frequency lowering intervention
Other: Frequency lowering reference

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Industry

Identifiers

Details and patient eligibility

About

Perceptual evaluation of the parametrization and pre-calculation of frequency lowering requires the participation of subjects with hearing loss.

Enrollment

8 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • Experienced hearing aid user (minimum use duration 1 year)
  • Adult (minimum age: 18 years),
  • Experience with frequency lowering,
  • Hearing thresholds with N5-N7, S1, S2, S3 hearing loss
  • Symmetrical hearing loss (difference between ears <= 10 dB for 1kHz-6kHz) ,
  • Sensorineural hearing loss,
  • Air Conduction - bone conduction gap <= 10 dB,
  • Written and spoken German,
  • Ability to understand instruction,
  • Ability to describe listening experiences,
  • Ability to attend to the appointments,
  • Ability to fill in a questionnaire conscientiously
  • Healthy outer ear (without previous surgical procedures)
  • Hearing loss within the fitting ranges of the investigational product,
  • Informed consent as documented by signature.

Exclusion criteria

  • Clinical contraindications deformity of the ear (closed ear canal
  • or absence of pinna),
  • Not willing to wear the hearing aid,
  • Fluctuating hearing that could influence the results,
  • Contraindications to the MD in this study, e.g. known hypersen-sitivity or allergy to the investigational product,
  • Limited mobility and not in the position to attend all appoint-ments,
  • Limited ability to describe listening impressions/experiences and the use of the hearing aid,
  • Inability to produce a reliable hearing test result,
  • Massively limited dexterity,
  • Known psychological problems,
  • Known central hearing disorders.

Trial design

Primary purpose

Treatment

Allocation

N/A

Interventional model

Single Group Assignment

Masking

None (Open label)

8 participants in 1 patient group

Hearing impaired group
Experimental group
Description:
The hearing impaired group will compare the reference condition with the intervention condition.
Treatment:
Other: Frequency lowering reference
Other: Frequency lowering intervention

Trial contacts and locations

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Central trial contact

Martina Schuepbach-Wolf; Julia Habicht

Data sourced from clinicaltrials.gov

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