Recruiting

Hearing Instruments

Sponsor:

Sonova AG

Code:

NCT07116135

Conditions

Hearing Loss, Bilateral

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18 - 70+

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Interventions

hearing instruments

Study Details

Brief summary:

The goal of this clinical study is to investigate the benefits of hearing instrument use in adults with hearing loss. The main questions it aims to answer are:

Does hearing instrument use improve speech understanding and listening effort amount people with hearing loss? Researchers will compare varying models of hearing instruments to see how speech understanding and listening effort are impacted.

Participants will be asked to wearing varying hearing instruments and participate in lab-based activities to evaluate their speech understanding, listening effort, and subjective preference.

Conditions

Hearing Loss, Bilateral

Study ID

NCT07116135

Start date

Feb 5, 2025

Status verified date

Jan, 2025

Completion date

Dec, 2025

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Dec, 2025

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18 - 70+

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Adult 18-95 years
  • N3 or N4 hearing loss
  • Experienced hearing aid user
  • English fluency
  • Cognitively able to complete complex listening tasks

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Outside of specified age range
  • Vulnerable populations
  • Hearing within normal limits or otherwise not appropriate for hearing instruments under study
  • Inability to read, write, or speak English
  • Inability to complete complex listening tasks

Study Design

Enrollment

30 participants

Anticipated

Intervention Model

Single group

Primary purpose

Treatment

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

experimental: Hearing instrument users

Individuals with hearing impairment will be fit with three different models of hearing instruments. They will all be fit with the same hearing instruments, although they will not be aware which model they are using at the time of testing.

Interventions

hearing instruments

Participants will be fit with three different models of hearing instruments.

Primary outcome measure

  • Speech intelligibility as assessed by the Coordinate Response Measure (CRM) Task [ Time Frame: Data is collected during the second lab visit for each participant, approximately 2 weeks after study enrollment. The duration of the study visit including testing is approximately 2.5 hours. ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

Study Coordinator

813-974-4148ant-lab@usf.edu

Locations

University of South Florida Auditory Neurosciences & Technology Lab

Recruiting

Tampa, Florida, United States, 33612

Contacts

Study Coordinator

813-974-4148ant-lab@usf.edu

More Information

Sponsor

Sonova AG

Last update posted

Aug 11, 2025

Last verified

Jan, 2025

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-10. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by Sonova AG on 2025-08-11.