Quest Sound Recover (SR2) vs. Venture SR2

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Hearing Loss
• Interventions: Device: hearing aid

• Registration Number: NCT02895477
• Lead Sponsor: Sonova AG

Brief Summary

Goal of this study is to determine the benefit of an improved feature on a new hearing aid platform.

To investigate the improvements of this feature is compared on a new and older hearing aid platform. The obtained results will be used for future improvement for this feature. This feature should improve the speech understanding and speech recognition of the hearing aid user.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2016-07
• Study First Submitted: 2016-08-29
• Study First Submitted QC: 2016-09-05
• Study First Posted: 2016-09-09
• Primary Completion: 2016-12
• Status Verified: 2017-01
• Study Completion: 2017-01-20
• Last Update Submitted: 2017-01-27
• Last Update Posted: 2017-01-30

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 23

Inclusion Criteria

• Informed Consent as documented by signature (Appendix Informed Consent Form)
• Ability to fill in a question conscientious
• Healthy outer ear (w/o previous surgical procedures)
• Sensorineural symmetric hearing loss (HL)
• N4 to N7 (degree of HL)

Exclusion Criteria

• Contraindications to the MD in this study, e.g. known hypersensitivity or allergy to the investigational product,
• Limited mobility and not in the position to attend weekly appointments
• Limited ability to describe listening impressions/experiences and the use of the hearing aid
• Inability to produce a reliable hearing test result when pure tone audiometry is attempted by the audiologist
• Massively limited dexterity
• Known Psychological problems
• Central hearing problems

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Test group	hearing aid	Hearing aid
Intervention group	hearing aid	Hearing aid

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Functional gain	after 8 weeks	Functional gain is to measure the aided threshold (in dB hearing level \[HL\]) in free field via loudspeaker.
Phoneme Perception Test	after 8 weeks	Change of detection thresholds after 4 weeks hearing instrument wearing time

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
sound quality ratings	after 6 and 12 weeks
questionnaires	after 2, 6, 8 and 12 weeks

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Sonova AG; 🇨🇭 Stäfa, Zürich, Switzerland