ongitudinal evaluation of hearing loss and other hearing complaints in professional musicians

Completed

• Conditions: Hearing impairment; Music induced hearing loss; 10019243

• Registration Number: NL-OMON48954
• Lead Sponsor: Klinische en Experimentele Audiologie

Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Last Update Posted: 15 April 2024

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: Not specified
• Target Recruitment: 63

Inclusion Criteria

Normal hearing participants
- Aged between 18-75 years old
- No reports of tinnitus
- Hearing thresholds of 15 dB HL or better at octave frequencies between 0.25 and 8 kHz of both ears;Musicians:
- Participants must have previously participated in the study conducted by E.J.M.Jansen in 2005 * 2006.
- Currently employed as professional musician

Exclusion Criteria

If the subject for whichever reason cannot participate in the test. Examples include
problems with concentration.

Study & Design

• Study Type: Observational non invasive
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
<p>Long-term effects will be assessed in terms of changes in pure tone audiograms,<br /><br>speech-reception threshold in noise, OAE-grams, subjective and objective<br /><br>tinnitus perception, subjective judgement of suffering from diplacusis, and<br /><br>objective diplacusis measures in professional musicians in a period of 12<br /><br>years. </p><br>

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
<p>Reference values for diplacusis at 500, 1000, 4000 and 6000 Hz (means and<br /><br>standard deviations) and reproducibility of the test will be assessed for<br /><br>normal-hearing listeners. </p><br>