Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT02448706
Variability In Hearing Aid Outcomes In Older Adults
Characterizing Variability in Hearing Aid Outcomes Among Older Adults
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- N/A
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 49 (actual)
- Sponsor
- Northwestern University · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 54 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
Summary
The goal of this project is to find out if the way a hearing aid processes a sound signal should be determined in part by an individual's cognitive characteristics. We anticipate that the outcome of this work will be a battery of assessments that will guide hearing aid processing for older patients with hearing loss.
Detailed description
Response to hearing aids is highly variable, with some individuals reporting much more benefit than others. Preliminary work by our laboratory and others suggests that patient factors-including cognition-may contribute to differences in how individuals respond to altered speech cues, such as those alterations introduced by hearing aid processing. The long-term goal of this work is to improve hearing aid outcomes by optimizing hearing aid processing for each individual.
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| DEVICE | Hearing Aid Fitting A | |
| DEVICE | Hearing Aid Fitting B |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2015-07-01
- Primary completion
- 2017-07-01
- Completion
- 2017-07-01
- First posted
- 2015-05-19
- Last updated
- 2020-11-17
- Results posted
- 2020-01-14
Locations
1 site across 1 country: United States
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT02448706. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.