NCT04882709

Compression Headphone Study

Using Headphone Presentation to Investigate Compression Strategy Modifications in Hearing Aids for Moderate-to-severe Hearing Loss

• Status: Terminated
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 12 (actual)
• Sponsor: Sonova AG · Industry
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 99 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The stimuli consist of speech in quiet, speech in noise, reverberant speech, and music recorded with different hearing aid settings, post-processed for headphone presentation and incorporated in an online sound survey. Participants will receive tablets and headphones to conduct a sound quality rating at home. The survey will involve a training session and within-subject repeated measures. Stimuli presentation will be randomized by sound quality rating tool.

Conditions

• Hearing Loss

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Recording with hearing aid	Each participant will listen to sound samples via headphones. Sound samples have been recorded with a hearing aid that was set to each participant's individual hearing loss and different amplification strategies, and an unaided reference. Participants will be asked to rate different aspects of sound quality while listening to the different sound samples.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-05-10
• Primary completion: 2021-09-02
• Completion: 2021-09-02
• First posted: 2021-05-12
• Last updated: 2025-08-13
• Results posted: 2025-08-13

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Canada