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Hearing Loss, Age-RelatedAUDISSEENCT05848661

Evaluation of a Digital Therapy of Auditory Training

A study testing AUDISSEE in people with Hearing Loss, Age-Related, run by Humans Matter.

Unknown status

Status not confirmed. The sponsor has not verified this record for over two years, so it may be out of date.

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Trial summary

The aim of the study is to evaluate the efficiency of the medical device AUDISSEE in improving the perception in noise ability of presbycusis patients with hearing-aids. Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 18 years and older
Conditions the study is for
Hearing Loss, Age-Related
What is being tested?
AUDISSEE
Type of treatment
Medical device
Could I receive a placebo?
Yes, some participants may receive a placebo
How many people
240 participants
Where
No sites listed yet
Study dates
Sep 2024to Mar 2025
Phase
Interventional
Are there results?
None posted in the registry

Key requirements

Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.

  • Ages 18 years and older
  • All sexes
  • No healthy volunteers
  • Adult, Older adult

Who may be able to join

  • Age over 18
  • No neurological or psychiatric background
  • No major cognitive deficit, able to understand and apply the recommendation
  • Motivated to participate
  • Have given its written consent
  • Affiliated to a social security system
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  • Diagnostic of presbycusis by a health professional
  • Hearing-aids since less than 2 years (no cochlear implants)
  • No tinnitus
  • With a possible access to a personal computer, tactile tablet or smart-phone to perform the training

Who cannot join

  • Age below 18
  • Pregnant or breastfeeding women

Trial locations and contacts

No sites are listed yet.

agathe pralus, PhD contact

+33611828004

a.pralus@humansmatter.co

About this study

Official title: AUDISSEE-Evaluation of a New Digital Therapy of a Cognitive Auditory Training

The aim of the study is to evaluate the efficiency of the medical device AUDISSEE in improving the perception in noise ability of presbycusis patients with hearing-aids.

Read the detailed description

AUDISSEE is a digital therapy designed specifically to improve the hearing in noise of presbycusis patients by offering a complete cognitive auditory training, with verbal and non-verbal (especially musical) stimuli. This therapy is designed improve the comfort of life of people fitted with hearing aids by improving the observance of the wearing of their hearing aids. It is designed for the greatest number of people regardless of age or type of hearing aids and adapts to all levels of hearing loss (mild to severe).

In this study, 240 patients will be randomized in four groups. The first group will be trained with AUDISSEE-verbal, AUDISSE-non-verbal then with the placebo therapy. The second group will be trained with AUDISSEE-non-verbal, AUDISSEE-verbal, then with the placebo therapy. The third group will be trained with the placebo therapy then AUDISSEE-verbal, and AUDISSE-non-verbal. The fourth group will be trained with the placebo therapy then AUDISSEE-non-verbal, and AUDISSE-verbal.

Each training session will last 20 minutes. 3 sessions are planned per week, for 5 weeks for each sub-training. The protocol lasts 20 weeks in total for each patient.

Being tested
AUDISSEE, Placebo
Keywords
Hearing aid, presbycusis, auditory training, hearing in noise
Medical subject headings
Presbycusis

What participants receive

What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.

  • AUDISSEEDevice

    AUDISSEE is a digital therapy designed specifically to improve the hearing in noise of presbycusis patients by offering a complete cognitive auditory training, with verbal and non-verbal stimuli. The therapy takes place over 10 weeks with 3 sessions of 20 minutes per week.

  • PlaceboDevice

    The Placebo is a therapy designed within the same frame as the AUDISSEE therapy but with no auditory exercises, instead the patients are listening to audiobook. The therapy takes place over 10 weeks, with 3 sessions of 20 minutes per week.

Study groups in NCT05848661
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
AUDISSEE-verbal, AUDISSE-non-verbal, Placebo, PlaceboExperimentalIn this arm, the group will perform first the AUDISSEE therapy starting with the verbal sub-training then the non-verbal sub-training. Then it will perform the placebo training for 10 weeks. The AUDISSEE therapy takes place over 10 weeks with 3 sessions of 20 minutes per week. It is divided into two parts (5 weeks for each part): * verbal training exercises in noise that are specifically aimed at improving patients' intelligibility in noise * non-verbal training exercises using environmental sounds and musical sounds, which are specifically aimed at improving non-verbal auditory perception
Receives: Device: AUDISSEE; Device: Placebo
AUDISSE-non-verbal, AUDISSEE-verbal, Placebo, PlaceboExperimentalIn this arm, the group will perform first the AUDISSEE therapy starting with the non-verbal sub-training then the verbal sub-training. Then it will perform the placebo training for 10 weeks.
Receives: Device: AUDISSEE; Device: Placebo
Placebo, Placebo, AUDISSEE-verbal, AUDISSE-non-verbalPlacebo comparatorIn this arm, the group will perform first placebo training for 10 weeks. Then, it will perform the AUDISSEE therapy starting with the verbal sub-training then the non-verbal sub-training. At each session of the placebo therapy, the patient will listen to an excerpt from an audio-book or podcast of similar length to the duration of the training exercises (20 min). This therapy engages the patient in a similar manner than the AUDISSEE therapy in terms of time spent (same session frequency, same session duration), but does not specifically train auditory perception networks.
Receives: Device: AUDISSEE; Device: Placebo
Placebo, Placebo, AUDISSE-non-verbal, AUDISSEE-verbalPlacebo comparatorIn this arm, the group will perform first placebo training for 10 weeks. Then, it will perform the AUDISSEE therapy starting with the non-verbal sub-training then the verbal sub-training.
Receives: Device: AUDISSEE; Device: Placebo

What is being measured

The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.

  1. Hearing in noise

    Measure of speech-in-noise comprehension using vocal audiometry (FrBio):

    Using SpeechNoise and a SNR (Signal-to-Noise Ratio) of 5dB, a percentage of correct repetition of 20 sentences is measured

    Measured: 5 weeks to baseline

  2. Hearing in noise

    Measure of speech-in-noise comprehension using vocal audiometry (FrBio):

    Using CocktailParty noise and a SNR (Signal-to-Noise Ratio) of 10dB, a percentage of correct repetition of 20 sentences is measured

    Measured: 5 weeks to baseline

  3. Hearing in noise

    Measure of speech-in-noise comprehension using vocal audiometry (FrBio):

    Using SpeechNoise and a SNR (Signal-to-Noise Ratio) of 5dB, a percentage of correct repetition of 20 sentences is measured

    Measured: 10 weeks to baseline

  4. Hearing in noise

    Measure of speech-in-noise comprehension using vocal audiometry (FrBio):

    Using CocktailParty noise and a SNR (Signal-to-Noise Ratio) of 10dB, a percentage of correct repetition of 20 sentences is measured

    Measured: 10 weeks to baseline

  5. Hearing in noise

    Measure of speech-in-noise comprehension using vocal audiometry (FrBio):

    Using SpeechNoise and a SNR (Signal-to-Noise Ratio) of 5dB, a percentage of correct repetition of 20 sentences is measured

    Measured: 15 weeks to baseline

  6. Hearing in noise

    Measure of speech-in-noise comprehension using vocal audiometry (FrBio):

    Using CocktailParty noise and a SNR (Signal-to-Noise Ratio) of 10dB, a percentage of correct repetition of 20 sentences is measured

    Measured: 15 weeks to baseline

  7. Hearing in noise

    Measure of speech-in-noise comprehension using vocal audiometry (FrBio):

    Using SpeechNoise and a SNR (Signal-to-Noise Ratio) of 5dB, a percentage of correct repetition of 20 sentences is measured

    Measured: 20 weeks to baseline

  8. Hearing in noise

    Measure of speech-in-noise comprehension using vocal audiometry (FrBio):

    Using CocktailParty noise and a SNR (Signal-to-Noise Ratio) of 10dB, a percentage of correct repetition of 20 sentences is measured

    Measured: 20 weeks to baseline

Secondary outcomes (32)
  1. Quality of life and hearing : personal efficacy

    Questionnaire for the feeling of personal efficacy:14 items with a 5-pt likert scale, a mean score is measured (between 1 and 5)

    Measured: 5 weeks to baseline

  2. Quality of life and hearing : listening effort

    Questionnaire for the listening effort: 10 items with a 10-points likert scale, a mean score is measured (between 1 and 10)

    Measured: 5 weeks to baseline

  3. Quality of life and hearing : spatial learning abilities

    Questionnaire for the spatial learning abilities (SSQ15): 15 items with a 10-points likert scale, a mean score is measured (between 1 and 10)

    Measured: 5 weeks to baseline

  4. Quality of life and hearing: personal efficacy

    Questionnaire for the feeling of personal efficacy:14 items with a 5-pt likert scale, a mean score is measured (between 1 and 5)

    Measured: 10 weeks to baseline

  5. Quality of life and hearing: listening effort

    Questionnaire for the listening effort: 10 items with a 10-points likert scale, a mean score is measured (between 1 and 10)

    Measured: 10 weeks to baseline

  6. Quality of life and hearing: spatial learning abilities

    Questionnaire for the spatial learning abilities (SSQ15): 15 items with a 10-points likert scale, a mean score is measured (between 1 and 10)

    Measured: 10 weeks to baseline

  7. Quality of life and hearing: personal efficacy

    Questionnaire for the feeling of personal efficacy:14 items with a 5-pt likert scale, a mean score is measured (between 1 and 5)

    Measured: 15 weeks to baseline

  8. Quality of life and hearing: listening effort

    Questionnaire for the listening effort: 10 items with a 10-points likert scale, a mean score is measured (between 1 and 10)

    Measured: 15 weeks to baseline

  9. Quality of life and hearing: spatial learning abilities

    Questionnaire for the spatial learning abilities (SSQ15): 15 items with a 10-points likert scale, a mean score is measured (between 1 and 10)

    Measured: 15 weeks to baseline

  10. Quality of life and hearing: personal efficacy

    Questionnaire for the feeling of personal efficacy:14 items with a 5-pt likert scale, a mean score is measured (between 1 and 5)

    Measured: 20 weeks to baseline

  11. Quality of life and hearing: listening effort

    Questionnaire for the listening effort: 10 items with a 10-points likert scale, a mean score is measured (between 1 and 10)

    Measured: 20 weeks to baseline

  12. Quality of life and hearing: spatial learning abilities

    Questionnaire for the spatial learning abilities (SSQ15): 15 items with a 10-points likert scale, a mean score is measured (between 1 and 10)

    Measured: 20 weeks to baseline

  13. Non-verbal auditory testing :pitch change detection task

    Battery of listening tests for non-verbal auditory cognition assessment:

    • Pitch Change Detection task: percentage of correct responses

    Measured: 5 weeks to baseline

  14. Non-verbal auditory testing: Direction of pitch change identification task

    Battery of listening tests for non-verbal auditory cognition assessment:

    • Direction of pitch change identification task: percentage of correct responses

    Measured: 5 weeks to baseline

  15. Non-verbal auditory testing: Short term memory for pitch task

    Battery of listening tests for non-verbal auditory cognition assessment:

    • Short term memory for pitch task: percentage of correct responses

    Measured: 5 weeks to baseline

  16. Non-verbal auditory testing: Emotional prosody recognition task

    Battery of listening tests for non-verbal auditory cognition assessment:

    • Emotional prosody recognition task: perception of correct responses

    Measured: 5 weeks to baseline

  17. Non-verbal auditory testing: Auditory Streaming separation task

    Battery of listening tests for non-verbal auditory cognition assessment:

    • Auditory Streaming separation task: mean frequency (in Hz) of perception change between 1 and 2 streams

    Measured: 5 weeks to baseline

  18. Non-verbal auditory testing: Pitch Change Detection task

    Battery of listening tests for non-verbal auditory cognition assessment:

    • Pitch Change Detection task: percentage of correct responses

    Measured: 10 weeks to baseline

  19. Non-verbal auditory testing: Direction of pitch change identification task

    Battery of listening tests for non-verbal auditory cognition assessment:

    • Direction of pitch change identification task: percentage of correct responses

    Measured: 10 weeks to baseline

  20. Non-verbal auditory testing: Short term memory for pitch task

    Battery of listening tests for non-verbal auditory cognition assessment:

    • Short term memory for pitch task: percentage of correct responses

    Measured: 10 weeks to baseline

  21. Non-verbal auditory testing: Emotional prosody recognition task

    Battery of listening tests for non-verbal auditory cognition assessment:

    • Emotional prosody recognition task: perception of correct responses

    Measured: 10 weeks to baseline

  22. Non-verbal auditory testing: Auditory Streaming separation task

    Battery of listening tests for non-verbal auditory cognition assessment:

    • Auditory Streaming separation task : mean frequency (in Hz) of perception change between 1 and 2 streams

    Measured: 10 weeks to baseline

  23. Non-verbal auditory testing: Pitch Change Detection task

    Battery of listening tests for non-verbal auditory cognition assessment:

    • Pitch Change Detection task: percentage of correct responses

    Measured: 15 weeks to baseline

  24. Non-verbal auditory testing: Direction of pitch change identification task

    Battery of listening tests for non-verbal auditory cognition assessment:

    • Direction of pitch change identification task: percentage of correct responses

    Measured: 15 weeks to baseline

  25. Non-verbal auditory testing: Short term memory for pitch task

    Battery of listening tests for non-verbal auditory cognition assessment:

    • Short term memory for pitch task: percentage of correct responses

    Measured: 15 weeks to baseline

  26. Non-verbal auditory testing: Emotional prosody recognition task

    Battery of listening tests for non-verbal auditory cognition assessment:

    • Emotional prosody recognition task: perception of correct responses

    Measured: 15 weeks to baseline

  27. Non-verbal auditory testing: Auditory Streaming separation task

    Battery of listening tests for non-verbal auditory cognition assessment:

    • Auditory Streaming separation task : mean frequency (in Hz) of perception change between 1 and 2 streams

    Measured: 15 weeks to baseline

  28. Non-verbal auditory testing: Pitch Change Detection task

    Battery of listening tests for non-verbal auditory cognition assessment:

    • Pitch Change Detection task: percentage of correct responses

    Measured: 20 weeks to baseline

  29. Non-verbal auditory testing: Direction of pitch change identification task

    Battery of listening tests for non-verbal auditory cognition assessment:

    • Direction of pitch change identification task: percentage of correct responses

    Measured: 20 weeks to baseline

  30. Non-verbal auditory testing: Short term memory for pitch task

    Battery of listening tests for non-verbal auditory cognition assessment:

    • Short term memory for pitch task: percentage of correct responses

    Measured: 20 weeks to baseline

  31. Non-verbal auditory testing: Emotional prosody recognition task

    Battery of listening tests for non-verbal auditory cognition assessment:

    • Emotional prosody recognition task: perception of correct responses

    Measured: 20 weeks to baseline

  32. Non-verbal auditory testing: Auditory Streaming separation task

    Battery of listening tests for non-verbal auditory cognition assessment:

    • Auditory Streaming separation task : mean frequency (in Hz) of perception change between 1 and 2 streams

    Measured: 20 weeks to baseline

Timeline

From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.

  1. First posted8 May 2023
  2. Study startSep 2024 (estimated)
  3. Primary completionMar 2025 (estimated)
  4. Study completionMar 2025 (estimated)

Resources

More details

For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.

Study design
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Phase N/A
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Randomised
Intervention model
Crossover
Model description
In this study, 240 patients will be randomized in four groups. The first group will be trained with AUDISSEE-verbal, AUDISSE-non-verbal then with the placebo therapy. The second group will be trained with AUDISSEE-non-verbal, AUDISSEE-verbal, then with the placebo therapy. The third group will be trained with the placebo therapy then AUDISSEE-verbal, and AUDISSE-non-verbal. The fourth group will be trained with the placebo therapy then AUDISSEE-non-verbal, and AUDISSE-verbal.
Masking
Double blind
Who is masked
Investigator, Outcomes assessor
Enrolment
240 participants (estimated)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT05848661
Sponsor's protocol ID
2023-A00248-37
Acronym
AUDISSEE
Status last verified
Feb 2024
First submitted
22 Mar 2023
Last updated
28 Feb 2024
Results posted
No
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
Individual data sharing
No

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

A study testing AUDISSEE in people with Hearing Loss, Age-Related, run by Humans Matter.

The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.

Who may be eligible to take part?

The sponsor lists 10 inclusion and 2 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.

Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?

The record says: status not confirmed, as of the sponsor's last update on 28 Feb 2024. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.

What are the possible benefits and risks?

They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. Some participants in this study may receive a placebo. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.

Are results available for this study?

Results are not available in the source record.

How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?

Contact agathe pralus, PhD (+33611828004, a.pralus@humansmatter.co), or a site near the patient. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.

What does the primary outcome measure?

Hearing in noise (time frame: 5 weeks to baseline). The study lists 8 primary outcomes in all. It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.

Where can I read the original study information?
Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?

No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.

How often is this information updated?

AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 28 Feb 2024.

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