Technical innovations for fitting and rehabilitation of adult CI users

Completed

Conditions: hearing loss
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hearing impairment

Registration Number: NL-OMON47186

Lead Sponsor: VUmc

Brief Summary: Not available

Detailed Description: Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status: Completed

Sex: Not specified

Target Recruitment: 82

Inclusion Criteria

Patients aged 18 years or older (all study parts); Patients with at least 1 year of CI experience after activation (study parts I, II, III and IV with experienced CI users); Newly implanted CI patients who enrol in the clinic's standard rehabilitation program after cochlear implantation (study part IV with newly implanted CI patients); Patients with onset of severe hearing impairment after the age of 7 years (all study parts); Native Dutch speakers (study parts I, II and III); Fluent Dutch speakers (study part IV); Patients using a Nucleus 6 CP900 processor (study part IV); Patients using a Nucleus 6 CP900, Nucleus 7 CP1000 or Kanso CP950 processor (study part I); Patients using a nucleus 5 or 6 CP800 or CP900 processor and the Freedom implant, with full insertion and 22 active electrodes (study part II)

Exclusion Criteria

Disability which could interfere with the completion of the tests (i.e. psychiatric problems, dyslexia or severe health problems); Additional handicaps that may prevent participation in evaluations; Patients with deviating map parameters (i.e., number of maxima, or pulses per second (PPS) (additional criterion for study part II)

Study & Design

Study Type: Observational non invasive

Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
<p>1. Type of listening environments and the use of different programs compared to<br /><br>SCAN<br /><br>2. Speech intelligibility test results to assess the effect of an AutoNRT based<br /><br>MAP compared to the speech intelligibility results with a standard T- and<br /><br>C-level MAP.<br /><br>3. Speech intelligibility test results under different circumstances to assess<br /><br>the reliability of remote testing<br /><br>4. Evaluation of a web based service for counselling of cochlear implant users<br /><br>and for monitoring of their performance</p><br>

Secondary Outcome Measures