My Hearing Experience - a Study About the Effect of Personality and Lifestyle on Everyday Hearing
- Conditions
- Hearing ImpairmentHearing Loss
- Registration Number
- NCT05465564
- Lead Sponsor
- WSAUD A/S
- Brief Summary
The primary purpose of this study is to investigate how personality, motivation \& auditory lifestyle relate to hearing aid satisfaction \& acceptance for first-time hearing aid users. As such, first-time hearing aid users will be followed via an app for a period of six months. They will answer baseline questionnaires about personality, lifestyle and hearing aid expectations before the first fit. After the hearing aid fitting, they will be prompted by the app to answer questionnaires about their hearing aid experience at weeks 2, 4, 8, 12, 16, 20 and 24.
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 40
- 18-85 years of age
- Sensorineural hearing loss within the hearing aid's fitting range
- Fluency in local language
- First-time hearing aid user
- Experienced smartphone and app user
- Must sign the informed consent
- Severe cognitive impairment that would preclude the ability to perform the necessary tasks (as judged by the HCP)
- Inability for the TPs to travel to the clinic during the study period
- Complex hearing disorders such as Ménière's
Study & Design
- Study Type
- OBSERVATIONAL
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method overall hearing aid satisfaction 6 months minimum: 1, maximum: 10 ; the higher value indicates a better outcome
IOI-HA 6 months minimum: 7, maximum: 35; the higher value indicates a better outcome
hearing aid satisfaction (Hearing-Related Lifestyle scale) 6 months minimum: 1, maximum: 5; the higher value indicates a better outcome
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
Dina Lelic
🇩🇰Lynge, DK, Denmark