Clinical trials: Hearing Impaired
Tinnitus
The Effect of Gabapentin on the Sensation and Impact of Tinnitus
This study evaluated the effectiveness of gabapentin in treating tinnitus in two populations: Tinnitus with associated acoustic trauma and tinnitus without associated acoustic trauma.
- Trial name
- NCT00257270
- Testing
- gabapentin
- Volunteers
- 40 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Tinnitus Research Consortium
Deafness
Neurophysiological Measures of Auditory Perception and Rehabilitation in Cochlear Implanted Patients
This study aims at investigating new automatic fitting techniques for cochlear implant patients based on objective measures. For this reason, the evolution of these neurophysiological measures, expressing the encoding of pure…
- Trial name
- NEUROSYLLABIC (NCT02323256)
- Testing
- Auditory steady-state response ASSR, Speech-ABR, Acoustic Change Complex ACC
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 91 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Hospices Civils de Lyon
Hearing Loss, Sensorineural
Training Language and Literacy for Children Who Use CIs
This study aims to determine the effectiveness of computer games to improve language and literacy outcomes for children who have hearing loss.
- Trial name
- NCT03582566
- Testing
- Phonological Awareness, Working Memory, Phonological Awareness + Working Memory
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 87 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Florida State University
Hearing Loss, Unilateral
Functional Near Infra-Red Spectroscopic Study of Central Auditory System Cortical Functional Reorganization
This study aims to compare the auditory cortical activity in response to monaural and binaural stimuli, measured by functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) between Single-sided Deaf (SSD) Children, and Normal-Hearing (NH)…
- Trial name
- SUN (NCT04043910)
- Testing
- fNIRS, Speech intelligibility, Sound localisation
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 50 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University Hospital, Toulouse
Hearing Loss, Dizziness
Fall Risk Assessment and Speech Intelligibility Enhancement Using In-ear Device
The purpose of this study is to develop and validate methods to use hearing aids equipped with embedded sensors and artificial intelligence to assist in the assessment of fall risk and in the implementation of interventions aimed…
- Conditions
- Hearing Loss, Dizziness, Vertigo, Fall Related Injury Risk
- Trial name
- NCT05365646
- Testing
- Hearing aids equipped with motion sensing abilities
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 350 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Stanford University
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
Sensorineural Hearing Loss, Tinnitus
ACEMg Hearing Preservation, Tinnitus and Hyperacusis Relief
ACEMg (Soundbites) is a neuroprotectant supplement designed to block the initiating biological events in the inner ear leading to inner ear hearing loss, sensorineural hearing loss, SNHL, which accounts for more than 90% of all…
- Conditions
- Sensorineural Hearing Loss, Tinnitus, SNHL, Inner Ear Hearing Loss
- Trial name
- OTISRWD (NCT06477354)
- Testing
- ACEMg
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 64 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Keep Hearing, Inc.
Hearing Loss, Unilateral
Single-Sided Deafness in the Medicare Population
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of cochlear implantation in adults 65 years of age and older.
- Trial name
- NCT05250414
- Testing
- MED-EL Cochlear Implant System
- Where
- 3 sites in United States, Canada
- Volunteers
- 18 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Med-El Corporation
Hearing Impairment
Do Bluetooth Noise Cancelling Headphones Improve the Quality of Care in Hearing Impaired Patients?
Participants will be recruited by performing chart reviews of patients to be seen at University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston Ophthalmology and Optometry Clinic. A sample size of at least 30 patients is needed (60 eyes).
- Trial name
- NCT05420038
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 30 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston
Hearing Loss, Bilateral Sensorineural, Pulmonary Function
Comparison of Pulmonary Functions and Respiratory Muscle Strength Between Children With Hearing Impairment and Healthy Peers
This study aims to compare pulmonary function and respiratory muscle strength between children with hearing impairment and their healthy peers.
- Conditions
- Hearing Loss, Bilateral Sensorineural, Pulmonary Function, Respiratory Muscle Strength, Children
- Trial name
- NCT07421349
- Where
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Volunteers
- 30 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Bezmialem Vakif University
Hearing Loss, Sensorineural
Hearing Aid Signal Processing Comparative Study
Participants will be fit with each of two hearing instruments in an ABA cross-over design. The study will consist of a total of three approximately 10-day home trials with the devices.
- Trial name
- NCT04839289
- Testing
- Receiver-in-canal hearing instrument; Manufacturer A, Receiver-in-canal hearing instrument; Manufacturer B
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 27 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Sonova AG
Hearing Loss, Cancer
Study to Evaluate the Safety and Pharmacokinetics of SPI-1005
A study to determine the safety, tolerability, and pharmacokinetics of SPI-1005 capsules in healthy adults.
- Trial name
- NCT01452607
- Testing
- SPI-1005
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 32 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Sound Pharmaceuticals, Incorporated
Hearing Loss, Sensorineural
PC-Based Rehabilitation of Auditory Function
Many older subjects experience difficulty in understanding speech in noisy environments. Part of this problem is related to changes that occur in the ear with age and compromise the hearing of high-pitched sounds.
- Trial name
- CINT (NCT00724347)
- Testing
- Consonant Identification Training
- Volunteers
- 18 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- US Department of Veterans Affairs
Hearing Loss
Assessment of Novel Sound Changing Principles in Hearing Instruments to Determine Their Application - 2019_04
Participants will take part in both a passive and active emotion recognition task: (1) passively listening to semantically-neutral sentences with emotional prosody, and (2) actively listening and subsequently categorizing…
- Trial name
- NCT03992963
- Testing
- Hearing Aid without frequency lowering enabled, Hearing Aid with frequency lowering enabled
- Where
- Switzerland
- Volunteers
- 8 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Sonova AG
Sensorineural Hearing Loss
Cochlear Implanted Listening Effort and Hearing Attention
Cochlear implant users perceive mainly sound amplitude modulation cues. Processing of these amplitude modulations can be subject to interferences, so that the perception of a modulation in a target sound can be impaired by a…
- Trial name
- EffICAtt (NCT04733950)
- Testing
- Forced choice psychoacoustic task for the evaluation of modulation detection performance and selective auditory attention. (for both arm), Measurement of the pupil diameter for the evaluation of listening effort during speech perception
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 170 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris
Hearing Loss, Age-Related
Early Identification of Age-related Hearing Impairment
The need for future hearing rehabilitation is enormous. World Health Organization (WHO 2021) has estimated that by 2050, 2.5 billion people will have some degree of hearing loss, and 1/4 of them will require hearing…
- Trial name
- NCT06418321
- Testing
- Investigational device, Audiometer, Otomicroscopy
- Where
- 2 sites in Finland
- Volunteers
- 49 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Aalto University
Deafness
Assessing the Impact of Vidéo Remote Sign Language Interpreting in Healthcare
This is a randomise study that looks at what is the effectiveness of the VRI system in improving communication outcomes between Deaf patients and doctors versus the 'available standard of care of the usual communication tools…
- Trial name
- Impact of VRI (NCT05966623)
- Testing
- Video Remote Interpretation
- Where
- 2 sites in Colombia
- Volunteers
- 183 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Geneva, Switzerland
Hearing Loss
A Comparative Clinical Investigation of Musician's Preference With Hearing Aids
For this study, Bernafon AG will carry out testing with participants with hearing loss to compare a dedicated music program to a general listening program.
- Trial name
- BF007-2101 (NCT04939259)
- Testing
- New Music Program, Standard Listening Program
- Where
- Switzerland
- Volunteers
- 13 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Bernafon AG
Hearing Loss, Hearing Impaired Children
Audiobooks for Hearing Loss App as Auditory Training
The goal of the proposed project is to create an Audiobooks for Hearing Loss (HL) App - an audiobook App that has a wide array of user-selectable features designed to provide auditory training.
- Conditions
- Hearing Loss, Hearing Impaired Children, Hearing Impairment
- Trial name
- NCT04231396
- Testing
- Audiobooks for hearing loss App
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 27 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- BioSpeech
Hearing Loss, Conductive
Audiological Benefit With Non-implantable Bone Conduction Hearing Systems
Recently, a new non-invasive bone conduction hearing aid was introduced. The system is connected directly to the skin with an adhesive adapter to transmit the sound to the inner ear through bone vibrations.
- Trial name
- NCT03129191
- Testing
- Non-invasive bone conduction hearing aid A, Non-invasive bone conduction hearing aid B
- Where
- Switzerland
- Volunteers
- 15 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Insel Gruppe AG, University Hospital Bern