Remote Hearing Aid Adjustment for New Hearing Aid Users; a Randomised Controlled Trial (RCT)

Sodra Alvsborgs Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Hearing Aids

Treatments: Device: Remote HA adjustment; Other: Traditional hearing aid

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04843124

Remote HA-fitting new

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 new hearing aid users.

Enrollment: 69 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• >18 yr of age
• new hearing aid user

Exclusion criteria

• <18 yr of age
• experienced hearing aid users

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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69 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 HA adjustment

Control group

Active Comparator group

Description:

Traditional hearing aid adjustment

Treatment:

Other: Traditional hearing aid