NCT07116135

Speech Understanding and Listening Effort Benefits of Hearing Instruments

Speech Understanding and Listening Effort Benefits of Infinio Sphere

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 30 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Sonova AG · Industry
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 95 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The goal of this clinical study is to investigate the benefits of hearing instrument use in adults with hearing loss. The main questions it aims to answer are: Does hearing instrument use improve speech understanding and listening effort amount people with hearing loss? Researchers will compare varying models of hearing instruments to see how speech understanding and listening effort are impacted. Participants will be asked to wearing varying hearing instruments and participate in lab-based activities to evaluate their speech understanding, listening effort, and subjective preference.

Conditions

• Hearing Loss, Bilateral

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	hearing instruments	Participants will be fit with three different models of hearing instruments.

Timeline

• Start date: 2025-02-05
• Primary completion: 2025-12-01
• Completion: 2025-12-01
• First posted: 2025-08-11
• Last updated: 2025-08-11

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States

Regulatory

• FDA-regulated device study