Clinical trials: Hearing Aids
Cancer, Ototoxicity, Drug-Induced
Comparative Study of the Quality of Life of Patients Suffering From OTOTOXICITY Due to Chemotherapy Based on Platinum Salts Fitted With a Hearing Aid Compared to Those Not Fitted.
There are many undesirable effects associated with platinum-based cancer treatments (renal failure, anaemia, etc.). Their administration also leads to neurosensory problems such as ototoxicity, tinnitus and reduced hearing…
- Conditions
- Cancer, Ototoxicity, Drug-Induced, Quality of Life, Hearing Disorders
- Trial name
- PROTOTOX (NCT05936034)
- Testing
- Patients suffering from chemotherapy-induced ototoxicity, Patients suffring from chemotherapy-induced ototoxicity wearing hearing aids
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 52 people
- Sponsor
- Institut de Cancérologie de Lorraine
Hearing Impairment, Sensorineural Hearing Loss, Bilateral
Hearing Aid Noise Reduction in Pediatric Users Pilot Study (Oticon Pilot Study)
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of OpenSound Navigator (OSN), a hearing aid speech-enhancement algorithm developed by Oticon, as treatment for pediatric hearing aid users.
- Trial name
- NCT04469946
- Testing
- Oticon OpenSound Navigator speech enhancement algorithm
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 15 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati
Hearing Loss
Clinical Applications for Time-Compressed Speech Tests
The purpose of this study is to determine the effects of age-related cognitive changes on hearing aid benefit based on hearing aid compression time constants.
- Trial name
- NCT00371839
- Testing
- Audiological Evaluation
- Volunteers
- 78 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- US Department of Veterans Affairs
Hearing Loss, Hearing Abnormality
Optimisation of Hearing Aid Fitting
This study aims to explore if objective brain responses to speech stimuli (words and running speech) can be used to evaluate hearing aid fitting in adults.
- Trial name
- NCT03279367
- Testing
- Objective speech response detection
- Where
- United Kingdom
- Volunteers
- 20 people
- Sponsor
- University of Southampton
Hearing Loss, Sensorineural
Quality Control of CE-Certified Phonak Hearing Aids - 2018_07
Phonak Hearing Systems pass through different development and study stages. At an early stage, feasibility studies are conducted to investigate new algorithms, features and functions in an isolated manner.
- Trial name
- NCT03555084
- Testing
- Extension of Virto B-Titanium, Virto B-Titanium
- Where
- Switzerland
- Volunteers
- 16 people
- Sponsor
- Sonova AG
Hearing Loss
Clinical Investigation and Validation of a Self-fitted Air-conduction Hearing Aid
Approximately 48 million people in the United States have hearing loss or hearing difficulties in noisy environments. Concha Inc.
- Trial name
- NCT06167161
- Testing
- Hearing aid
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 21 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Concha Inc.
Hearing Loss
Examining the Impact of Physician Influence on Hearing Aid User Satisfaction and Retention
Most of us will experience some degree of hearing loss as we get older. It can affect one or both ears and without treatment causes difficulty with following conversations in the home or workplace.
- Trial name
- NCT02842905
- Testing
- Fitting Audiologist completion, Participant's Physician completion
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 133 people
- Sponsor
- University of British Columbia
Hearing Impairment
Effects of the Swedish Internet-based Individualised Active Communication Education (I-ACE) in FTU
Hearing impairment affects the ability to communicate, which can adversely affect both mental and physical health. The most common used rehabilitation method in hearing impairment is hearing aid fitting.
- Trial name
- I-ACE (NCT05815667)
- Testing
- Individualised Active Communication Education (I-ACE)
- Where
- Sweden
- Volunteers
- 63 people
- Sponsor
- Horselvarden Region Ostergotland
Hearing Loss
Evaluation of New Fitting Characteristics for Extended Wear Hearing Aid Technology
Two groups of hearing aid candidates will be fit with extended wear technology. One group will be fit with the commercially available models, and the other group will be fit with either the commercially available model or a new…
- Trial name
- NCT05274165
- Testing
- Lyric Hearing Aid- Experimental Design, Lyric Hearing Aid- Commercially Available
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 25 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Sonova AG
Hearing Loss
A Study Evaluating the Application of Hearing Aid Technologies to Signal Processing for Adult Cochlear Implant Recipients
A feasibility, prospective, multi-centre, repeated measures investigation evaluating the application of hearing aid technologies to signal processing for adult cochlear implant recipients
- Trial name
- HATSI-MB (NCT05866770)
- Testing
- U8, N8 sound processor
- Where
- 3 sites in Australia
- Volunteers
- 150 people
- Sponsor
- Cochlear
Hearing Impairment, Hearing Loss, Sensorineural
Hearing Aid Noise Reduction in Pediatric Users (Oticon Study)
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of OpenSound Navigator (OSN), a hearing aid speech-enhancement algorithm developed by Oticon, as treatment for pediatric hearing aid users.
- Trial name
- OtiS (NCT03771287)
- Testing
- Oticon OpenSound Navigator speech enhancement algorithm, Oticon omni-directional microphone algorithm
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 40 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati
Hearing Loss
Comparing Self-Fitting Strategies in the Lexie Powered by Bose Hearing Aids
More than 1.5 billion people around the world experience hearing loss, of whom at least 430 million experience disabling hearing loss that will require rehabilitation.
- Trial name
- NCT05782153
- Testing
- Intervention A (hearing aid self-fitting with direct adjustment), Intervention B (hearing aid self-fitting with in-situ fitting)
- Where
- South Africa
- Volunteers
- 40 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- hearX Group
Hearing Loss, Conductive, Hearing Loss Mixed
Investigating Hearing With Ponto 3 SuperPower, a Bone Anchored Hearing Aid - Investigating Hear
The study is part of the Post Market Clinical Follow (PMCF) activity. The investigational device is the CE-marked Ponto 3 SuperPower (available on the market since December 2016) already fitted to the subjects, and data is…
- Conditions
- Hearing Loss, Conductive, Hearing Loss Mixed, Hearing Disability, Conductive Hearing Loss
- Trial name
- NCT04803279
- Testing
- Collection of Pure tone thresholds from audiogram measured prior to fitting of Ponto 3 SuperPower, Collection of BC In-situ thresholds from BC In-situ audiogram measured during fitting of Ponto 3 SuperPower, Collection of Aided sound field thresholds measured with the Ponto 3 SuperPower
- Where
- United Kingdom
- Volunteers
- 57 people
- Sponsor
- Oticon Medical
Hearing Loss, Sensorineural
Cognition Effects of Hearing Aids and Auditory Training in Older Age
Sensorineural type of hearing loss is the most common sensory deficit among older adults. Some of the psychosocial consequences of this condition include difficulty in understanding speech, depression and social isolation.
- Trial name
- NCT03112850
- Testing
- Hearing aid, Auditory Training
- Where
- Australia
- Volunteers
- 40 people
- Sponsor
- Swinburne University of Technology
Hearing Impaired (Partially)
Optimization of Perceived Sound Quality for Music Listening in Hearing Aid Users With Hearing Loss.
This study aims to optimize music listening quality for 66 hearing aid users (33 musicians and 33 non-musician music enthusiasts) by developing a dedicated "Music Program" based on individual frequency preference profiles.
- Trial name
- OPTIMMUSIC (NCT07677748)
- Testing
- Musical listening quality preference test
- Volunteers
- 66 people
- Sponsor
- Institut Pasteur
Age-related Macular Degeneration, Dementia
Words on the Brain: Can Reading Rehabilitation for Age-Related Vision Impairment Improve Cognitive Functioning?
Age-related vision impairment and dementia both become more prevalent with increasing age. Research into the mechanisms of these conditions has proposed that some of their causes (e.g., macular degeneration/glaucoma and…
- Conditions
- Age-related Macular Degeneration, Dementia, Low Vision, Low Vision Aids
- Trial name
- WOTB (NCT04276610)
- Testing
- Low Vision Reading Rehabilitation
- Where
- 2 sites in Canada
- Volunteers
- 38 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Université de Montréal
Hearing Disorders in Children, Hearing Loss
Automated Measures of Speech Intelligibility Using Brain Wave Recordings
Hearing loss is one of the most prevalent impairments in the world. The World Health Organization estimates that as of 2020, around 466 million people worldwide are affected by disabling hearing loss, of which 34 million are…
- Trial name
- CORGEE (NCT06402994)
- Testing
- Electrophysiological experiment, Speech audiometry
- Where
- 4 sites in Belgium
- Volunteers
- 100 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Universitaire Ziekenhuizen KU Leuven
Hearing Aid, Hearing Loss, Bilateral Sensorineural
Hearing Aid Benefit in Real-World Noisy Environments
Researchers are doing this study to understand why hearing aids often work well in controlled laboratory settings but don't provide the same level of benefit in everyday noisy environments.
- Conditions
- Hearing Aid, Hearing Loss, Bilateral Sensorineural, Hearing Loss, Adult-Onset
- Trial name
- NCT07226167
- Testing
- Hearing aid
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 45 people
- Sponsor
- University of Wisconsin, Madison
Hearing Loss
Auditory Research in Children Living With HIV Exposure-uninfected (ARCHIVE)
To evaluate the association of in utero antiretroviral therapy (ART) exposure and hearing abilities of children who were perinatally HIV-exposed, but HIV-free, stratified by timing of maternal ART initiation.
- Trial name
- ARCHIVE (NCT06635642)
- Testing
- Dichotic Interaural Intensity Difference (DIID) Training
- Volunteers
- healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- San Diego State University
Hearing Loss, Conductive, Bone Conduction Deafness
A Randomised Controlled Trial Comparing Bone Anchored Hearing Aid With Bonebridge
The Bonebridge is a new bone conducting implantable hearing aid. The investigators plan to randomize patients to receive either the Bonebridge or a conventional bone conducting hearing device.
- Trial name
- NCT01858246
- Testing
- Bonebridge, Bone Anchored Hearing Aid
- Where
- United Kingdom
- Volunteers
- 3 people
- Sponsor
- Ninewells Hospital