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REFIT Hearing: Remote Fitting of Hearing Aids

NCT02589561 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 60

Last updated 2018-05-21

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Currently, the fitting of hearing aids is using a computer interface that allows to adjust the gain and compression of acoustic amplification. This adjustment is made face to face, patient and audiologist being located in a soundproof space to test the effectiveness of the hearing aid.

However, advances in telemedicine in this context, let consider the possibility of addressing these hearing aids fitting via the same computer interface, but remotely controlled by the hearing care professional. The purpose of this study is to assess the ability to perform these tests no longer in front of the patient settings, but away from it, and without visual and sound contact other than through a computer interface.

At the end, this project wants to show that a remote fitting is an acceptable procedure that provides comparable results to-face fitting in terms of speech perception, speech in noise audiometry, hearing loss related quality of life in order to be able to offer this type of strategy.

Conditions

Interventions

DEVICE

Remote fitting

remote fitting of hearing aids

DEVICE

Face to face fitting

face to face fitting of hearing aids

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • AudioPro Connect

    collaborator INDUSTRY

  • Alliance Audition Montpellier

    collaborator OTHER

  • Audition Conseil Perpignan

    collaborator OTHER

  • Audition Conseil à Nîmes

    collaborator OTHER

  • University Hospital, Montpellier

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Frédéric VENAIL, Professor · University Hospital, Montpellier

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
SINGLE
Model
CROSSOVER

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
84 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2015-10-31
Primary Completion
2016-05-31
Completion
2016-12-31

Countries

  • France

Study Locations

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