Clinical trials: Hearing Disorder
Eustachian Tube Dysfunction, Sudden Hearing Loss
What is the Tympanic Membrane Healing Time After Insertion of a Gelfoam PE Tube?
Pilot study done to evaluate the breakdown and and potential utility of a bioabsorbable ventilation ear tube made with gelatin.
- Conditions
- Eustachian Tube Dysfunction, Sudden Hearing Loss, Meniere Disease
- Trial name
- NCT04902963
- Testing
- PE tube
- Volunteers
- 14 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Skovlund Medical Products, LLC
Sensorineural Hearing Loss, Bilateral
Study of Sound and Speech Perception in New Cochlear Implanted Subjects Using or Not an Anatomy-based Fitting
Main objective: Compare the recognition of environmental sounds with an anatomy-based fitting and with a default fitting adult patients newly implanted with a MED-EL cochlear implant.
- Trial name
- NCT05230498
- Testing
- anatomy-based fitting then default fitting, default fitting then anatomy-based fitting
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 17 people
- Sponsor
- MED-EL Elektromedizinische Geräte GmbH
Hearing Loss
Daily Exposure Monitoring to Prevent Hearing Loss
The goal of this study is to determine whether daily assessment and feedback of workers' noise exposures leads to more effective use of hearing protection and prevention of noise-induced hearing loss.
- Trial name
- DEMON (NCT01714375)
- Testing
- QuietDose Device
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 322 people
- Sponsor
- Yale University
Hearing Loss, Late-Onset Hearing Loss
Genetic Testing in Detection of Late-Onset Hearing Loss
Two major limitations of existing audiometric newborn hearing screening programs are their inability to detect forms of deafness that are not expressed at birth and the low compliance with obtaining recommended audiologic…
- Conditions
- Hearing Loss, Late-Onset Hearing Loss, Deafness
- Trial name
- SoundGene (NCT00511381)
- Testing
- No intervention
- Where
- 3 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 3,681 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Pediatrix
Hearing Loss, Sensorineural
Study of Viral Transduction of Human Auditory Sensory Cells for the Development of Gene Therapy
Gene therapy is a promising strategy to treat hearing loss and vestibular disorders, and Associated adenovirus (AAV) is shown as a good viral vector for inner ear therapy in animal models.
- Trial name
- TREATGENE (NCT03996824)
- Testing
- Peroperative collect of inner ear cells
- Where
- 2 sites in France
- Volunteers
- 100 people
- Sponsor
- Institut Pasteur
Hearing Loss, Bilateral Sensorineural, Progressive, Hearing Loss, Bilateral (Causes Other Than Tumors)
Hearing Screening in Adults Over 50 Years Old
The goal of this single-arm quasi-experimental study is to evaluate the feasibility, effectiveness, and management of three different hearing screening methods in adults aged 50 years and older in the Czech Republic.
- Conditions
- Hearing Loss, Bilateral Sensorineural, Progressive, Hearing Loss, Bilateral (Causes Other Than Tumors), Hearing Loss, Bilateral or Unilateral, Presbyacusis
- Trial name
- HSA50+ (NCT06894927)
- Testing
- Screening HHIA questionnaire, Whispered voice test, Screening pure tone audiometry
- Where
- 2 sites in Czechia
- Volunteers
- 330 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University Hospital Hradec Kralove
Brain Mapping, Deafness
Areas of Brain Responsible for Understanding American Sign Language
The human brain is made up of two halves called hemispheres. Each half of the brain is responsible for processing different kinds of information.
- Conditions
- Brain Mapping, Deafness, Healthy
- Trial name
- NCT00001782
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 30 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
Hearing Loss
Hearing and Brain Development Cohort in Children and Adolescents
This bidirectional observational cohort study aims to establish a Hearing and Brain Development (HBD) cohort in children and adolescents with hearing loss across different hearing management pathways, including hearing aid…
- Trial name
- HBD-Cohort (NCT07625462)
- Where
- China
- Volunteers
- 5,000 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Shanghai Ninth People's Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Tinnitus, Epilepsy, Temporal Lobe
Pathophysiology, Psycho-emotional and Cognitive Functioning Associated With Tinnitus
the investigators have recently shown that patients with drug-resistant temporal lobe epilepsy who have undergone brain surgery targeting the medial temporal lobe structures were more likely to develop tinnitus postoperatively.
- Trial name
- AudiCog (NCT04717388)
- Testing
- acoustics tests, Questionaries,, MRI
- Where
- 2 sites in France
- Volunteers
- 300 people
- Sponsor
- Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris
Noise-induced Hearing Loss
Protective Effects of EPI-743 on Noise-Induced Hearing Loss
If effective, administration of EPI-743 should have protective effects against temporary noise-induced hearing loss.
- Trial name
- NCT02257983
- Testing
- EPI-743
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 77 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Edison Pharmaceuticals Inc
Tinnitus
Tinnitus and Cochlear Implants
Objectives of this study are to (1) Determine whether there are meaningful changes in tinnitus outcomes following cochlear implantation in adults with bilateral severe-to-profound hearing loss, (2) Determine the prevalence…
- Trial name
- TICIT (NCT06085885)
- Testing
- Cochlear implant
- Where
- United Kingdom
- Volunteers
- 50 people
- Sponsor
- University of Nottingham
Tinnitus, Subjective
Sulodexide Efficacy in Chronic Idiopathic Subjective Tinnitus
The objective of this prospective randomized and double blind controlled study is to evaluate the efficacy and safety of Sulodexide (25 mg) in the treatment of chronic idiopathic subjective tinnitus.
- Trial name
- SECIST (NCT02737670)
- Testing
- Sulodexide
- Where
- Lebanon
- Volunteers
- 126 people
- Sponsor
- St Joseph University, Beirut, Lebanon
Mild Cognitive Impairment in Middle-aged Adults
Deafness and Cognition in Middle-aged Adults
A mild cognitive impairment was observed in 50% of cochlear implant candidates aged 65 years and over, compared to 5-19% in general population. No studies analysed cognition in patients younger than 65 years.
- Trial name
- SURDICOG (NCT05149742)
- Testing
- Cognitive and audiometry evaluation
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 180 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris
Hearing Loss, Age-Related, Presbycusis, Bilateral
Assessment of e-Audiology for Providing Clinical Services and Support
Technological advances in hearing aids and telecommunications, including the widespread availability of telehealth (referred to in this proposal as "e-Audiology") applications, have the potential to expand both access and…
- Conditions
- Hearing Loss, Age-Related, Presbycusis, Bilateral, Hearing Disability
- Trial name
- eAudiology (NCT04048460)
- Testing
- Delivery of hearing healthcare through eAudiology application
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 10 people
- Sponsor
- University of South Florida
Hearing Impairment
Evaluating the Effects of Information Leaflets in Adult Aural Rehabilitation
Knowledge about how to manage hearing aids is an important factor in hearing aid success, but studies show that this knowledge ranges from good to poor, even among experienced adult hearing aid users.
- Trial name
- NCT05936320
- Testing
- Information leaflets with illustrations about hearing aid functions, Information leaflets with only text about hearing aid functions
- Where
- Sweden
- Volunteers
- 61 people
- Sponsor
- Horselvarden Region Ostergotland
Hearing Loss
Automated Text Message Reminders to Promote Hearing Aid Adoption
Many individuals with hearing loss do not receive adequate hearing healthcare. Only about 30 percent of people that are found to have hearing loss during a hearing test go on to use hearing aids.
- Trial name
- NCT07170423
- Testing
- Automated text message reminder
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 190 people
- Sponsor
- Stanford University
Hearing Loss, Cochlear Implants
Encoding Temporal Fine Structure for Cochlear Implants
The goal of this study is to improve music and speech perception for cochlear implant users. Presently, most cochlear implants discard the temporal fine structure of sound, which is information that is widely believed to…
- Trial name
- TFS4CIs (NCT04708717)
- Testing
- Stimulation Rate, Electrode Location
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 24 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Southern California
Hearing Loss
Neonatal Hearing Screening at Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
Hearing loss is one of the most common congenital anomalies . It has been shown to be greater than that of most other diseases and syndromes (eg, phenylketonuria, sickle cell disease) screened at birth.
- Trial name
- NCT03716362
- Testing
- Otoacoustic emissions device
- Where
- Egypt
- Sponsor
- Assiut University
Alzheimer Disease, Presbycusis
Age-related Hearing Loss and Lexical Disorders
In France, Alzheimer's disease accounts for 70 to 80% of the causes of neurocognitive disorders, i.e. 600,000 to 800,000 patients.
- Conditions
- Alzheimer Disease, Presbycusis, Lexical Syntactic Disorder
- Trial name
- LOOP (NCT03638323)
- Testing
- Speech therapy
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 46 people
- Sponsor
- Groupe Hospitalier de la Rochelle Ré Aunis
Hearing Loss
Hearing Aids, Counseling and the Significant Other
The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of enhanced patient-centered counseling (PCC) and the influence of spousal involvement in pre-fitting counseling on hearing-aid outcomes.
- Trial name
- NCT01809496
- Testing
- Informational Counseling, Patient Centered Counseling
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 10 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- VA National Center for Rehabilitative Auditory Research