istening effort in the European population: A new innovative program of research and training
- Conditions
- Hearing impairmenthearing loss10019243
- 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
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.
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
Name Time Method <p>Performance on a speech perception in noise test, pupil response.</p><br>
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method <p>Performance on the cognitive tasks and questionnaires.</p><br>