Reduction of listening effort with speech enhancement strategies in cochlear implant users

Recruiting

• Conditions: Deafness; sensorineural hearing loss; 10019243

• Registration Number: NL-OMON52777
• Lead Sponsor: eids Universitair Medisch Centrum

Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Last Update Posted: 15 April 2024

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Sex: Not specified
• Target Recruitment: 108

Inclusion Criteria

- Fluent in Dutch, preferably being their native language;
- Implanted with a CI from Advanced Bionics at least on one side;
- 18 years of age or older;
- At least 6 months experience with their CI;
- Speech scores in quiet of at least 50%;
- Bimodal listeners need to wear a hearing aid or be willing to start wearing
one;
- Normal-hearing listeners should have normal haring, namely an average
pure-tone threshold loss of 50 dB or less across a frequency range of 500 -
4000 Hz.

Exclusion Criteria

Conditions other than hearing loss that may affect the experiments (e.g.,
speech impairments)

Study & Design

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

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
<p>Pupil diameter (LE), speech reception thresholds (SRTs) or words/sentence<br /><br>correct rates (SU)</p><br>

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
<p>The before-and-after results of the two User Experience questionnaires will be<br /><br>analyzed by calculating effect size to assess whether subjects deem the SES to<br /><br>be better, the same, or worse than their regular program. The user satisfaction<br /><br>rating will be subject to descriptive statistics only to describe SES comfort<br /><br>levels.</p><br>