Remote Hearing Aid Adjustment for Experienced Hearing Aid Users (RCT)

Sodra Alvsborgs Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Hearing Aids

Treatments: Device: Remote hearing aid adjustment

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04840277

Remote HA-fitting

Details and patient eligibility

About

Many hearing aid users experience substantial communication difficulties that may affect their participation in daily life situations negatively. One of the reasons for experiencing remaining problems could be due to unrealistic expectations, another reason could be that the hearing aid is not well adjusted or that the hearing aid user didn't got sufficient support and follow-up from the audiologist.

The purpose of this project is to offer remote hearing aid adjustment as an additional support for experienced hearing aid users.

Enrollment: 92 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• >18 yr of age
• experienced hearing aid user

Exclusion criteria

• <18 yr of age
• new hearing aid users

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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92 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention group

Experimental group

Description:

Remote hearing aid adjustment. All participants in this group are offered hearing aids possible to adjust remotely.

Treatment:

Device: Remote hearing aid adjustment

Control group

No Intervention group

Description:

Traditional hearing aid adjustment