NCT06962540

Understanding Individual Listening Strategies

• Status: Enrolling By Invitation
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 30 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Northwestern University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 90 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if hearing aid settings that are customized to individual listening strategies result in better speech understanding than non-customized hearing aid settings. The main question it aims to answer is: Do customized hearing aid settings result in better speech understanding? Researchers will compare hearing aid settings that match individual listening strategy to a general setting. Participants will: Wear hearing aids for a 2-hour visit to our laboratory. Listen to some sentences in noise and repeat the sentences they hear, with two different hearing aid settings Listen to some sentences in noise and rate how understandable they think those sentences are, with two different hearing aid settings

Detailed description

Participants will complete standard clinical hearing evaluations and a listening profile test to evaluate their individual listening strategy. Hearing aids will then be programmed either based on their clinical hearing evaluations alone using typical hearing aid settings or based on their hearing test with settings further adjusted to account for their individual listening strategies.

Conditions

• Hearing Loss, Sensorineural

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Hearing aid with settings customized to match their individual listening strategy	Behind-the-ear hearing aids that have been programmed based on the participant's individual listening strategy and hearing loss.
DEVICE	Hearing Aid with settings based on audiogram alone	Behind-the-ear hearing aids that have been programmed based on their hearing loss and typical clinical settings.

Timeline

• Start date: 2025-04-18
• Primary completion: 2026-03-01
• Completion: 2026-06-01
• First posted: 2025-05-08
• Last updated: 2025-05-08

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States