Understanding Individual Listening Strategies

NCT ID: NCT06962540

Last Updated: 2025-05-08

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

ENROLLING_BY_INVITATION

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

30 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2025-04-18

Study Completion Date

2026-06-30

Brief Summary

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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

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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.

Conditions

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Hearing Loss, Sensorineural

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

CROSSOVER

Participants will listen to hearing aids programmed specifically for their listening strategies or to ones programmed with typical clinical settings first, then switch strategies.
Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Participants
Participants will not know when they are listening to a hearing aid that is programmed with general or customizable settings.

Study Groups

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Customized to match listening strategy First

Participants in this arm will listen to hearing aid settings programmed to match their listening strategy first, then the general setting

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Hearing aid with settings customized to match their individual listening strategy

Intervention Type DEVICE

Behind-the-ear hearing aids that have been programmed based on the participant's individual listening strategy and hearing loss.

Hearing Aid with settings based on audiogram alone

Intervention Type DEVICE

Behind-the-ear hearing aids that have been programmed based on their hearing loss and typical clinical settings.

Not customized to match listening strategy First

Participants will listen to hearing aid settings based only on their pure-tone thresholds first (general hearing aid settings), then ones programmed to match their listening strategies.

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Hearing aid with settings customized to match their individual listening strategy

Intervention Type DEVICE

Behind-the-ear hearing aids that have been programmed based on the participant's individual listening strategy and hearing loss.

Hearing Aid with settings based on audiogram alone

Intervention Type DEVICE

Behind-the-ear hearing aids that have been programmed based on their hearing loss and typical clinical settings.

Interventions

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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.

Intervention Type 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.

Intervention Type DEVICE

Other Intervention Names

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Customized Hearing Aid Settings General Hearing Aid Settings

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Sensorineural hearing loss

Exclusion Criteria

* Montreal Cognitive Assessment \< 23 points
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

90 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Northwestern University

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Pamela Souza

Professor

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Pamela Souza, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Northwestern University

Locations

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Northwestern University

Evanston, Illinois, United States

Site Status

Countries

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United States

Other Identifiers

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STU00221736

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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