Real World Perspectives on Advancements in Hearing Aid Technology

NCT ID: NCT05468918

Last Updated: 2023-08-22

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 14 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2022-07-18
• Study Completion Date: 2022-10-26

Brief Summary

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.

Detailed 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.

Conditions

Hearing Loss

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: CROSSOVER
• Primary Study Purpose: TREATMENT
• Blinding Strategy: SINGLE

Study Groups

Participants tested with comparator devices first, then Audeo Lumity devices

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

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Phonak Audeo previous generation hearing aids

Intervention Type: DEVICE

Receiver-in-canal (RIC) hearing aids with universal earpieces

Phonak Audeo Lumity hearing aids

Intervention Type: DEVICE

Receiver-in-canal (RIC) hearing aids with universal earpieces

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

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

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Phonak Audeo previous generation hearing aids

Intervention Type: DEVICE

Receiver-in-canal (RIC) hearing aids with universal earpieces

Phonak Audeo Lumity hearing aids

Intervention Type: DEVICE

Receiver-in-canal (RIC) hearing aids with universal earpieces

Interventions

Phonak Audeo previous generation hearing aids

Receiver-in-canal (RIC) hearing aids with universal earpieces

Intervention Type: DEVICE

Phonak Audeo Lumity hearing aids

Receiver-in-canal (RIC) hearing aids with universal earpieces

Intervention Type: DEVICE

Eligibility Criteria

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

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 90 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Sonova AG

INDUSTRY

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Locations

Phonak Audiology Research Center

Aurora, Illinois, United States

Countries

United States

Provided Documents

Document Type: Study Protocol and Statistical Analysis Plan

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Other Identifiers

SRF-2855

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id