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istening effort in the European population: A new innovative program of research and training

Completed
Conditions
Hearing impairment
hearing loss
10019243
Registration Number
NL-OMON44463
Lead Sponsor
Vrije Universiteit Medisch Centrum
Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
Completed
Sex
Not specified
Target Recruitment
171
Inclusion Criteria

Age between 18 and 80 years, native Dutch speaker, normal or corrected to normal eyesight, for normally hearing listeners: age -normal hearing according to ISO 7029, 2000, for listeners with hearing loss: pure tone hearing thresholds (average across 1, 2, 4 kHz) of at least 25 dB HL in at least one ear. ;For experiment 4C: Aged 12 years up to and including 16 years, native speakers of Dutch, normal or corrected-to-normal eyesight. Listeners with hearing loss should use at least one hearing aid in daily-life. Furthermore the hearing-impaired children should have a moderately to severe binaural sensorineural hearing loss (* 35 dB HL and * 70 dB HL for both ears), and be experienced hearing aid users. Children with normal hearing should have air-conduction pure-tone thresholds of max. 20 dB HL at the octave frequencies between 500 and 4000 Hz.

Exclusion Criteria

dyslexia or other reading problems, history of neurological or psychiatric diseases, eye diseases such as caused by diabetes mellitus and cataract.;Supplementary for experiment 4C: General exclusion criteria: not being able to attend regular education schools. For the hearing impaired children unilateral and conductive hearing losses are excluded.

Study & Design

Study Type
Observational non invasive
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
<p>Performance on a speech perception in noise test, pupil response.</p><br>
Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
<p>Performance on the cognitive tasks and questionnaires.</p><br>
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