Reduction of listening effort with speech enhancement strategies in cochlear implant users

Reduction of listening effort with speech enhancement strategies in cochlear implant users - Reduction of listening effort in CI users

Status

Active, not recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

NL-OMON

Registry ID

NL-OMON52777

Enrollment

108

Registered

2019-01-28

Start date

2019-04-12

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2026-06-01

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Conditions

Deafness sensorineural hearing loss

Interventions

None listed

Eligibility

Age

18 Years to 99 Years

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: - Fluent in Dutch, preferably being their native language; - Implanted with a CI from Advanced Bionics at least on one side; - 18 years of age or older; - At least 6 months experience with their CI; - Speech scores in quiet of at least 50%; - Bimodal listeners need to wear a hearing aid or be willing to start wearing one; - Normal-hearing listeners should have normal haring, namely an average pure-tone threshold loss of 50 dB or less across a frequency range of 500 - 4000 Hz.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: Conditions other than hearing loss that may affect the experiments (e.g., speech impairments)

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Pupil diameter (LE), speech reception thresholds (SRTs) or words/sentence correct rates (SU)	—

Secondary

Measure	Time frame
The before-and-after results of the two User Experience questionnaires will be analyzed by calculating effect size to assess whether subjects deem the SES to be better, the same, or worse than their regular program. The user satisfaction rating will be subject to descriptive statistics only to describe SES comfort levels.	—

Countries

Netherlands

Outcome results