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Understanding Individual Listening Strategies

NCT06962540 · Status: ENROLLING_BY_INVITATION · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 30

Last updated 2026-05-04

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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

Conditions

  • Hearing Loss, Sensorineural

Interventions

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.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Pamela Souza, PhD · Northwestern University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
CROSSOVER

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2025-04-18
Primary Completion
2027-07-31
Completion
2027-07-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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