Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT03345654
Individually-guided Hearing Aid Fitting
Characterizing Variability in Hearing Aid Outcomes Among Older Adults
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- —
- Study type
- Observational
- Enrollment
- 42 (actual)
- Sponsor
- Northwestern University · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 18 Years – 90 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
Summary
This translational project aims to optimize the fitting of hearing aids by development and clinical validation of a toolset that guides signal processing choice based on the individual auditory and cognitive abilities of the patient.
Detailed description
The clinical trial portion of the project will validate clinical use of the toolset by evaluating a population of patients fit using current standard of care. Patient characteristics, such as audiological profile and cognition, will be collected. Their hearing aid settings will then be evaluated to determine if they meet toolset guidelines for signal processing based on their patient characteristics (auditory and cognition). Data regarding subjective and objective hearing aid outcomes will also be collected. It is hypothesized that hearing aid fittings that meet the standards of the proposed clinical toolset will result in better patient outcomes (objective and subjective) and fewer post-fitting visits.
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| OTHER | Hearing Aids | The signal processing of newly fit hearing aids will be evaluated for acceptability based on the toolset, which takes additional patient information beyond hearing threshold (like cognition) to determine the optimal hearing aid signal processing strategies. |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2023-09-08
- Primary completion
- 2024-11-08
- Completion
- 2024-11-08
- First posted
- 2017-11-17
- Last updated
- 2025-05-02
Locations
1 site across 1 country: United States
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT03345654. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.