Clinical trials: Hearing Aids
Bilateral Sensorineural Hearing Loss
Noise Reduction With Hearing Aids
The purpose of this study is to use an optimized version of the SEDA algorithm (SEDA-HA) for hearing aids to evaluate the benefit for listeners with varying degrees of hearing loss in realistic environments and evaluate its…
- Trial name
- NCT07700043
- Testing
- Speech Enhancement using Decomposition Approach-Hearing Aid (SEDA-HA) algorithm, Hearing aid (HA) prototype with SEDA-HA algorithm
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 60 people
- Sponsor
- NYU Langone Health
Presbycusis, Bilateral, Alzheimer Disease 2 Due to Apoe4 Isoform
Hearing Aid and Individuals With Cognitive Disorders
This is a pilot study with the aim of evaluating the feasibility of the procedures of a future clinical trial that will help determine the impacts of hearing aid interventions on older patients with Alzheimer's Disease and…
- Conditions
- Presbycusis, Bilateral, Alzheimer Disease 2 Due to Apoe4 Isoform, Mild Cognitive Impairment
- Trial name
- NCT04049643
- Testing
- Audiologist-based fitting, Service-only Fitting, Device-only fitting
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 17 people
- Sponsor
- Yu-Hsiang Wu
Hearing Loss
Quality Control of CE-Certified Phonak Hearing Aids - 2016_05
A methodical evaluation of new CE-labelled Phonak Hearing Systems is intended to be conducted on hard of hearing participants to grant quality control prior to product launch.
- Trial name
- NCT02951247
- Testing
- Hearing Aid
- Where
- Switzerland
- Volunteers
- 30 people
- Sponsor
- Sonova AG
Auditory Processing Disorder
Hearing Aids for Veterans With Functional Hearing Difficulties
Every year, approximately 100,000 Veterans seek help at VA Audiology clinics for hearing and communication difficulties only to learn that they have normal hearing sensitivity.
- Trial name
- NCT06117254
- Testing
- Communication Counseling, Hearing Aids, Remote Microphones
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 142 people
- Sponsor
- VA Office of Research and Development
Technology
Effectiveness of a Smart Hearing Aid on Improving Psychosocial Well-being in Elderly
The study has 2 primary research questions, 4 secondary research questions, and 2 auxiliary research questions targeting elderly with hearing impairment. The research questions are: Primary study questions: 1.
- Trial name
- NCT05772949
- Testing
- Experimental group intervention, Wait-list control group intervention
- Where
- 3 sites in Hong Kong
- Volunteers
- 33 people
- Sponsor
- The University of Hong Kong
Hearing Loss
Evaluation of Hearing Aids Rehabilitation Within Age-related Hearing Loss Population.
Hearing aids restore efficiently some auditory functions in age-related hearing loss (ARHL or presbycusis) providing to the elderly an access to oral communication and a return to social life.
- Trial name
- AGEHEAR (NCT05331404)
- Testing
- PET examination, Quality of life assessment
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 45 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University Hospital, Toulouse
Tinnitus
Clinical Benefit of Hearing Aid Tinnitus Feature on Tinnitus-Related Annoyance in Tinnitus Patients in Belgium
Tinnitus, the perception of sound without an external source, affects around 15% of the global adult population (Jarach et al., 2022).
- Trial name
- NCT07711249
- Testing
- Sonova manufactured hearing aids with built-in Tinnitus feature
- Volunteers
- 170 people
- Sponsor
- Sonova AG
Alzheimer Disease, Hearing Loss
Early Age-Related Hearing Loss Investigation (EARHLI)
Early Age-Related Hearing Loss Investigation (EARHLI) is a single site study that will randomize late middle age adults to either a hearing intervention (including hearing aids) or a health education intervention.
- Conditions
- Alzheimer Disease, Hearing Loss, Cognitive Impairment
- Trial name
- EARHLI (NCT06174038)
- Testing
- Hearing Intervention, Health Education Intervention
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 150 people
- Sponsor
- Columbia University
Hearing Loss, Hearing Aids
New Hearing Aid Users and Their Social Participation
Does first-ever hearing aid fitting change social participation? Using a mixed methods approach made up of audiological assessments (hearing test and examination of the ear canal and eardrum), questionnaires, semi-structured…
- Conditions
- Hearing Loss, Hearing Aids, Social Participation
- Trial name
- NCT07866586
- Testing
- Observation
- Volunteers
- 32 people
- Sponsor
- University of Nottingham
Conductive Hearing Loss, Mixed Hearing Loss
Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Bone-anchored Hearing Aids (Baha)
A bone-anchored hearing aid (Baha) consists of a titanium implant located at the mastoid, and a sound processor connected with the implant.
- Conditions
- Conductive Hearing Loss, Mixed Hearing Loss, Unilateral Deafness
- Trial name
- Baha (NCT01264510)
- Testing
- audiological test battery
- Where
- Belgium
- Sponsor
- University Hospital, Ghent
Sensorineural Hearing Loss, Bilateral, Cochlear Hearing Loss
Non-linear Frequency Compared to Conventional Processing in Patients With and Without Cochlear Dead Regions.
The investigators are interested in an additional hearing aid feature called non-linear frequency compression (NLFC). This aims to improve audibility of high frequency sounds by converting them into lower frequencies and has been…
- Trial name
- NCT04145661
- Testing
- Hearing aids programmed conventionally., Hearing aids programmed with compression activated.
- Where
- United Kingdom
- Volunteers
- 11 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
Hearing Loss, Sensorineural
Wear-Time Trial for Self-Fitting Hearing Aid
This document describes a clinical validation study for a double-blind repeated-measures comparative study of the Great Nordic (GN) self-fitting method to a validated audiology-best-practices method when fitting the GN…
- Trial name
- NCT04823494
- Testing
- Hearing aids
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 40 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- GN Hearing A/S
Hearing Loss
Clinical Study of Released Unitron RIC and BTE Hearing Aid Models
The present study will confirm the clinical benefit of 2 different released hearing aid models for speech understanding (in noise).
- Trial name
- NCT05197803
- Testing
- Hearing aid
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 25 people
- Sponsor
- Sonova AG
Mild and Moderate Presbycusis
Evaluation of Efficacy and Patient Acceptance of Sound Amplifier Téo First, in Mild and Moderate Presbycusis Patient 60 Years of Age and Older, With no Previous Hearing Aid
A personal sound amplifying device (PASP) like Teo First is a wearable electronic product that is not intended to compensate for impaired hearing, but rather is intended for non-hearing impaired consumers to amplify sounds in the…
- Trial name
- TEO FIRST (NCT01815788)
- Testing
- Use of a personal sound amplifying device = TeoFirst
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 31 people
- Sponsor
- Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nice