Cochlear Implants in Post-lingually Children: Results After 10 Years

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT01400178

Enrollment

Registered

2011-07-22

Start date

2009-11-30

Completion date

2011-02-28

Last updated

2016-10-31

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Conditions

Deafness, Hearing Impairment

Keywords

cochlear implant, children, follow up, results

Brief summary

Objectives: To assess a group of post-lingually children after 10 years of implantation with regard to speech perception, speech intelligibility, and academic/occupational status. Study Design: A prospective transversal study. Setting: Pediatric referral center for cochlear implantation. Patients: Ten post-lingually deafened children with Nucleus and Med-El cochlear implants. Interventions: Speech perception and speech intelligibility tests and interview. Main Outcome Measures: The main outcome measures were score of Hint sentences recognition (silence and noise), speech intelligibility scores(write-down intelligibility and rating scale scores) and academic/ occupational status.

Interventions

None listed

Study design

Time perspective

CROSS_SECTIONAL

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

* postlingually deaf * age at cochlear implant: \< 18 years * more than 10 years of cochlear implant use

Exclusion criteria

* other disabilities

Countries

Brazil

Outcome results