NCT05372094

Noise Reduction Preferences in Teenagers and Pre-teens

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 18 (actual)
• Sponsor: Sonova AG · Industry
• Sex: All
• Age: 10 Years – 17 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Noise reduction preferences and blue tooth access to hearing aid streaming features will be evaluated in experienced hearing aid users age 10-17.

Detailed description

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the preferences for hearing aid noise reduction settings in users age 10 -17, as well as to evaluate preferences for accessing the hearing aid Bluetooth streaming programs for this population. Subjective preferences will be obtained by having the participants listen to a noisy scene with different levels of noise reduction, to which they are blinded, and rate their preference. Blinded objective speech performance testing will be completed by a) finding the signal-to-noise ratio at which participant can correctly repeat back 50% of the target words, and b) measuring the percent of words correctly repeated during a noisy listening task. These tasks will be done using different levels of noise reduction. Subjective preferences for accessing Bluetooth streaming will also be obtained by asking participants which method they prefer (phone, hearing aid, or touch control). .

Conditions

• Hearing Loss

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Phonak Hearing Aid	Commercially available hearing aid with various noise reduction strengths

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-02-23
• Primary completion: 2023-09-30
• Completion: 2023-09-30
• First posted: 2022-05-12
• Last updated: 2024-01-09
• Results posted: 2024-01-05

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States

Regulatory

• FDA-regulated device study