Real World Perspectives on Advancements in Hearing Aid Technology

Sonova

Status: Completed

Conditions: Hearing Loss

Treatments: Device: Phonak Audeo Lumity hearing aids; Device: Phonak Audeo previous generation hearing aids

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Industry

Identifiers

NCT05468918

SRF-2855

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study will compare different microphone technologies in a noisy environment when the dominant speaker is at the front, back, left, or right side of the listener.

Full description

Understanding speech in a noisy environment can be difficult for people with hearing loss even with hearing aids. Hearing aid manufacturers have implanted various methods (i.e., directional micro-phones, noise reduction, noise cancelers) to try to improve the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) to increase the speech understanding in these difficult listening situations.

This study is evaluating different microphone technologies to determine listening effort when speech is to the back or side of the listener in noisy environment.

Enrollment: 14 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 90 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Moderate sensorineural hearing loss
• Experienced hearing aid user
• Has a significant other/communication partner that can fill out a questionnaire about hearing aid performance during the home trial
• Smartphone user for receiving study alerts

Exclusion criteria

• Cognitive impairment
• Not willing to wear hearing aid

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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14 participants in 2 patient groups

Participants tested with comparator devices first, then Audeo Lumity devices

Experimental group

Description:

All participants who completed speech in noise testing in the lab with the comparator devices first, and then the Audeo Lumity devices.

Treatment:

Device: Phonak Audeo Lumity hearing aids

Device: Phonak Audeo previous generation hearing aids

Participants who were tested with Audeo Lumity first, then comparator devices

Experimental group

Description:

All participants who completed speech in noise testing in the lab with the Audeo Lumity devices first, and then the comparator devices.

Treatment:

Device: Phonak Audeo Lumity hearing aids

Device: Phonak Audeo previous generation hearing aids