Speech Understanding and Listening Effort Benefits of Hearing Instruments

Sonova

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Hearing Loss, Bilateral

Treatments: Device: hearing instruments

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; Industry

Identifiers

NCT07116135

SRF-22934 STUDY7873

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this clinical study is to investigate the benefits of hearing instrument use in adults with hearing loss. The main questions it aims to answer are:

Does hearing instrument use improve speech understanding and listening effort amount people with hearing loss? Researchers will compare varying models of hearing instruments to see how speech understanding and listening effort are impacted.

Participants will be asked to wearing varying hearing instruments and participate in lab-based activities to evaluate their speech understanding, listening effort, and subjective preference.

Enrollment: 30 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 95 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Adult 18-95 years
• N3 or N4 hearing loss
• Experienced hearing aid user
• English fluency
• Cognitively able to complete complex listening tasks

Exclusion criteria

• Outside of specified age range
• Vulnerable populations
• Hearing within normal limits or otherwise not appropriate for hearing instruments under study
• Inability to read, write, or speak English
• Inability to complete complex listening tasks

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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30 participants in 1 patient group

Hearing instrument users

Experimental group

Description:

Individuals with hearing impairment will be fit with three different models of hearing instruments. They will all be fit with the same hearing instruments, although they will not be aware which model they are using at the time of testing.

Treatment:

Device: hearing instruments