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UnknownNCT05331404

Evaluation of Hearing Aids Rehabilitation Within Age-related Hearing Loss Population.

Longitudinal Evaluation of Hearing Aids Rehabilitation Within Age-related Hearing Loss Population : Behavioral and Neuroimaging PET Evaluations.

Status
Unknown
Phase
N/A
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
45 (estimated)
Sponsor
University Hospital, Toulouse · Academic / Other
Sex
All
Age
18 Years
Healthy volunteers
Accepted

Summary

Hearing aids restore efficiently some auditory functions in age-related hearing loss (ARHL or presbycusis) providing to the elderly an access to oral communication and a return to social life. However, a most of the assessments of their efficacy focus on speech recognition. Spatial hearing and localization are anothers important auditory functions merely evaluated. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the hearing aids benefits for spatial hearing.

Detailed description

The main objective is to evaluate the hearing aids benefits for spatial hearing with a multidisciplinary approach combing psychophysics, and Positron Emission Tomography (PET) brain imaging in a before/after experimental design. The novelty of the proposal is both theoretical and methodological: the team aim is to identify neural correlates of spatial hearing after hearing rehabilitation and evaluate the evolution of spatial hearing abilities once subjects with presbycusis are fitted with hearing aids. The assessment of spatial hearing processing will rely on both a virtual visuo-auditory 3D immersive platform and functional neuroimaging using PET scan. This project will provide crucial elements for understanding and improving the rehabilitation of age-related hearing loss.

Conditions

Interventions

TypeNameDescription
RADIATIONPET examinationPET examinations with auditory stimuli such as human voice and environmental sounds.
OTHERQuality of life assessmentquality of life assessment by : * Speech, Spatial and Qualities of Hearing * Hearing Handicap Inventory For The Elderly Screening * Short Form Health Survey

Timeline

Start date
2022-06-02
Primary completion
2024-04-01
Completion
2024-04-01
First posted
2022-04-15
Last updated
2022-07-05

Locations

1 site across 1 country: France

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT05331404. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.