NCT05197803

Clinical Study of Released Unitron RIC and BTE Hearing Aid Models

Clinical Study of Released Unitron RIC (Receiver in Canal) and BTE (Behind the Ear) Hearing Aid Models

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 25 (actual)
• Sponsor: Sonova AG · Industry
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 100 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The present study will confirm the clinical benefit of 2 different released hearing aid models for speech understanding (in noise). Participants with mild to severe hearing impairment will be fit binaurally with Unitron hearing aids and will perform a standardized speech discrimination test in noise with and without hearing aids.

Detailed description

Each participant will be asked to wear a set of BTE and RIC hearing aids and complete the Hearing in Noise Test (HINT) aided and unaided. The investigators will be assessing their speech intelligibility in noise for each condition during the same appointment to determine the SNR50 (the Signal-to-Noise ratio necessary for a participant to recognize the speech material correctly 50 percent of the time).

Conditions

• Hearing Loss

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Hearing aid	Participants will complete testing aided and unaided. The hearing aids have been fit to compensate for their hearing loss.

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-01-10
• Primary completion: 2022-01-28
• Completion: 2022-01-28
• First posted: 2022-01-20
• Last updated: 2025-05-07
• Results posted: 2025-05-07

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Canada