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Speech Understanding and Listening Effort Benefits of Hearing Instruments

NCT07116135 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 30

Last updated 2025-08-11

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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

DEVICE

hearing instruments

Participants will be fit with three different models of hearing instruments.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of South Florida

    collaborator OTHER

  • Sonova AG

    lead INDUSTRY

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2025-02-05
Primary Completion
2025-12-31
Completion
2025-12-31
FDA Device
Yes

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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