Understanding Individual Listening Strategies
For patients and families
In plain language
An automatic summary of structured registry data. It is an orientation aid, not a substitute for the official protocol or a physician assessment.
- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: Hearing aid with settings customized to match their individual listening strategy, Hearing Aid with settings based on audiogram alone.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Hearing Loss, Sensorineural. Basic parameters: 18 years — 90 years · All.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- United States
- Next step
- Save the trial, show it to the treating physician, and confirm current recruitment with the study center. Costs, documents and travel →
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Overview
The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if hearing aid settings that are customized to individual listening strategies result in better speech understanding than non-customized hearing aid settings. The main question it aims to answer is: Do customized hearing aid settings result in better speech understanding? Researchers will compare hearing aid settings that match individual listening strategy to a general setting. Participants will: Wear hearing aids for a 2-hour visit to our laboratory. Listen to some sentences in noise and repeat the sentences they hear, with two different hearing aid settings Listen to some sentences in noise and rate how understandable they think those sentences are, with two different hearing aid settings
Detailed description
Participants will complete standard clinical hearing evaluations and a listening profile test to evaluate their individual listening strategy. Hearing aids will then be programmed either based on their clinical hearing evaluations alone using typical hearing aid settings or based on their hearing test with settings further adjusted to account for their individual listening strategies.
Interventions
- Device Hearing aid with settings customized to match their individual listening strategy
Behind-the-ear hearing aids that have been programmed based on the participant's individual listening strategy and hearing loss. - Device Hearing Aid with settings based on audiogram alone
Behind-the-ear hearing aids that have been programmed based on their hearing loss and typical clinical settings.
Primary outcome measures
- Speech recognition [Time frame: Outcome measure is collected during the intervention, a two hour visit to the lab where they are wearing the hearing aids]
Secondary outcome measures (1)
- Speech Spatial Quality [Time frame: Outcome measure is collected during the intervention, a two hour visit to the lab where they are wearing the hearing aids]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- Sensorineural hearing loss
Exclusion criteria
- Montreal Cognitive Assessment < 23 points
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: No
Study design
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Model
- Crossover
- Masking
- Single blind
- Primary purpose
- Treatment
Study locations
United States · 1 center
- Northwestern University — Evanston
Identifiers
NCT: NCT06962540 · STU00221736