Prosody processing in adults with cochlear implants

• Conditions: Z96.2; Presence of otological and audiological implants

• Registration Number: DRKS00029345
• Lead Sponsor: niversitätsklinikum Düsseldorf

Brief Summary

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Detailed Description

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Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2022-11-11
• Study Completion: 2023-01-20
• Results First Posted: 2024-05-07
• Last Update Posted: 19 August 2024

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Complete
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 25

Inclusion Criteria

Use of a cochlear implant, unilateral or bilateral
- Age of majority
- Attendance at regular appointments during the study period at the hearing centre in Düsseldorf
- Good German language skills according to the therapist's assessment
- Written informed consent
- implantation of the cochlear implant at least 6 weeks ago

Exclusion Criteria

- No written consent of the patient
- Minor
- Sign language as mother tongue
- Insufficient knowledge of German according to the therapist's assessment
- Uncorrectable visual impairment / blindness according to own statements
- Illiterate, according to own statements
- Known mental illness such as severe depression or dementia

Study & Design

• Study Type: observational
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
End of data collection 12/2022<br>The end point is reached when all 50 test persons (25 CI users and 25 normal-hearing persons) have completed the required questionnaires and passed the experiment. The data will then be processed statistically.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
emotional competence: EFK-S Fragebögen (Hogrefe)<br>Hearing- and HrQoL mit Cochlea-Implantat: NCIQ (Hinterink, J., 2000)<br>Mood/ sensitivities: Bf-SR Fragebögen (Hogrefe)<br>Prosody: Beurteilung mittels Experiment<br><br>Data extraction/ evaluation 03/2023