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Understanding Individual Listening Strategies
Sponsor: Northwestern University
Summary
The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if hearing aid settings that are customized to individual listening strategies result in better speech understanding than non-customized hearing aid settings. The main question it aims to answer is: Do customized hearing aid settings result in better speech understanding? Researchers will compare hearing aid settings that match individual listening strategy to a general setting. Participants will: Wear hearing aids for a 2-hour visit to our laboratory. Listen to some sentences in noise and repeat the sentences they hear, with two different hearing aid settings Listen to some sentences in noise and rate how understandable they think those sentences are, with two different hearing aid settings
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
18 Years - 90 Years
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
30
Start Date
2025-04-18
Completion Date
2026-06
Last Updated
2025-05-08
Healthy Volunteers
No
Conditions
Interventions
Hearing aid with settings customized to match their individual listening strategy
Behind-the-ear hearing aids that have been programmed based on the participant's individual listening strategy and hearing loss.
Hearing Aid with settings based on audiogram alone
Behind-the-ear hearing aids that have been programmed based on their hearing loss and typical clinical settings.
Locations (1)
Northwestern University
Evanston, Illinois, United States