Study of Auditory Perception After Progressive Exposure to Aversive Sounds in People With Misophonia

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

NOT_YET_RECRUITING

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

110 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2025-06-30

Study Completion Date

2026-03-31

Brief Summary

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The primary objective of the project is to characterise and measure the auditory perception of subjects with misophonia compared with the auditory perception of control subjects.

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Detailed Description

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Conditions

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Misophonia

Study Design

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Allocation Method

NON_RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

exposure to unpleasant sounds at home is the focus of this study

Primary Study Purpose

BASIC_SCIENCE

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Control group

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Psychoacoustic test

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Natural sounds will be presented at different decibels (dB), and the subject will be asked to rate the pleasantness/unpleasantness of the sound heard on a visual analogue scale, as well as the loudness (subjective intensity) of the sound heard.

semi-structured interviews

Intervention Type OTHER

interview, designed under the supervision of a psychologist and using the methodology of micro-phenomenological interviews the aim of these interviews is to gain access to the participants' experiences, as they describe them in the first person, during misophonic episodes

Misophonia group

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Psychoacoustic test

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Natural sounds will be presented at different decibels (dB), and the subject will be asked to rate the pleasantness/unpleasantness of the sound heard on a visual analogue scale, as well as the loudness (subjective intensity) of the sound heard.

semi-structured interviews

Intervention Type OTHER

interview, designed under the supervision of a psychologist and using the methodology of micro-phenomenological interviews the aim of these interviews is to gain access to the participants' experiences, as they describe them in the first person, during misophonic episodes

Exposure to unpleasant sounds

Intervention Type OTHER

Home exposure is a practice whereby participants voluntarily subject themselves to SMs in a controlled environment.

Participants will be asked to complete two tasks: firstly, they will have to expose themselves to all 10 sounds at least twice a week; secondly, they will have to record the annoyance felt for each sound and the subjective loudness (loudness) of each SM using VAS.

Interventions

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Psychoacoustic test

Natural sounds will be presented at different decibels (dB), and the subject will be asked to rate the pleasantness/unpleasantness of the sound heard on a visual analogue scale, as well as the loudness (subjective intensity) of the sound heard.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

semi-structured interviews

interview, designed under the supervision of a psychologist and using the methodology of micro-phenomenological interviews the aim of these interviews is to gain access to the participants' experiences, as they describe them in the first person, during misophonic episodes

Intervention Type OTHER

Exposure to unpleasant sounds

Home exposure is a practice whereby participants voluntarily subject themselves to SMs in a controlled environment.

Participants will be asked to complete two tasks: firstly, they will have to expose themselves to all 10 sounds at least twice a week; secondly, they will have to record the annoyance felt for each sound and the subjective loudness (loudness) of each SM using VAS.

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

For all participants

* Obtain oral consent from the participant after receiving information about the study,
* Be 18 years or older on the day of inclusion,
* Be fluent in French (spoken and written),
* Have no known hearing loss, verified by pure tone audiometry.
* Declare that they do not have tinnitus,
* Declare that they do not have hyperacusis, verified by measuring discomfort thresholds.
* Be affiliated to the social security or equivalent scheme.

For participants with misophonia:

\- Declare discomfort, reduced tolerance to specific sounds (mouth noises, throat clearing, breathing, etc.).

Exclusion Criteria

* Bear the after-effects of an ear infection and/or have a history of an ENT disease that permanently affects hearing or balance (vestibular schwannoma, Ménière's disease, sudden or fluctuating deafness, congenital hypoacusis),
* Be under guardianship,
* deprived of liberty by judicial or administrative decision, or subject to legal protection.

Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes