NCT05468918

Real World Perspectives on Advancements in Hearing Aid Technology

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 14 (actual)
• Sponsor: Sonova AG · Industry
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 90 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study will compare different microphone technologies in a noisy environment when the dominant speaker is at the front, back, left, or right side of the listener.

Detailed description

Understanding speech in a noisy environment can be difficult for people with hearing loss even with hearing aids. Hearing aid manufacturers have implanted various methods (i.e., directional micro-phones, noise reduction, noise cancelers) to try to improve the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) to increase the speech understanding in these difficult listening situations. This study is evaluating different microphone technologies to determine listening effort when speech is to the back or side of the listener in noisy environment.

Conditions

• Hearing Loss

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Phonak Audeo previous generation hearing aids	Receiver-in-canal (RIC) hearing aids with universal earpieces
DEVICE	Phonak Audeo Lumity hearing aids	Receiver-in-canal (RIC) hearing aids with universal earpieces

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-07-18
• Primary completion: 2022-10-26
• Completion: 2022-10-26
• First posted: 2022-07-21
• Last updated: 2023-08-22
• Results posted: 2023-08-22

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States

Regulatory

• FDA-regulated device study