Influence of wearing a face mask on speech understanding
Recruiting
- Conditions
- Hearing loss, unspecifiedH91.9
- Registration Number
- DRKS00023956
- Lead Sponsor
- niversitätsklinik für Hals-Nasen-Ohrenheilkunde
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 170
Inclusion Criteria
native German; normal hearing both ears: hearing thresholds up to 10 dB HL up to 4 kHz; mild hearing loss both ears (WHO grade 1); moderate hearing loss both ears (WHO grade 2); severe hearing loss both ears (WHO grade 3); cochlea implant users with sufficient hearing abilities (SRT Oldenburg sentence test <20dB SNR) and worse hearing abilities on to CI contralateral ear
Exclusion Criteria
underage; kognitive impairments; decreased vision, which impairs reading abilities; patients without cochlear implants not fitting into the defined subject groups; cochlear implant users without sufficient speech understanding (SNR of standard Oldenburg sentence test larger or equal to 20 dB)
Study & Design
- Study Type
- observational
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Assessment of the influence of face masks on the audio-visual speech intelligibility with the help of the audio-visual Oldenburg sentence test in background noise
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Assessment of the impairment caused by wearing face masks on the audio-visual speech intelligibility of hearing-impaired listeners and cochlea implant users with the help of the audio-visual Oldenburg sentence test in background noise