NCT01400178

Cochlear Implants in Post-lingually Children: Results After 10 Years

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 10 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Sao Paulo · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Objectives: To assess a group of post-lingually children after 10 years of implantation with regard to speech perception, speech intelligibility, and academic/occupational status. Study Design: A prospective transversal study. Setting: Pediatric referral center for cochlear implantation. Patients: Ten post-lingually deafened children with Nucleus and Med-El cochlear implants. Interventions: Speech perception and speech intelligibility tests and interview. Main Outcome Measures: The main outcome measures were score of Hint sentences recognition (silence and noise), speech intelligibility scores(write-down intelligibility and rating scale scores) and academic/ occupational status.

Conditions

• Deafness
• Hearing Impairment

Timeline

• Start date: 2009-11-01
• Primary completion: 2010-11-01
• Completion: 2011-02-01
• First posted: 2011-07-22
• Last updated: 2016-10-31

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Brazil