deafness hearing loss
Conditions
Interventions
None listed
Sponsors
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Patients (cochlear implant users): o Implanted with cochlear implant of Advanced Bionics on one side o Minimum age of 18 years old o Minimum of 6 months experience with their CI o Speech understanding score (CVC phenome test) in quiet of at least 50% Healthy subjects (normal-hearing): o Minimum of 18 years old o Normal-hearing, meaning an average pure-tone threshold of not more than 60 dB across a frequency of 500 - 4000 Hz
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: - Disorders other than hearing impairment that could have an effect on study results - Not able to complete 2 hours of consecutive testing - Not fluent in Dutch - Prelingual deafness
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Speech Reception Threshold (SRT) in decibel. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Subject characteristics that could possibly influence the performance, for example residual hearing, duration of deafness, type of implant, electrode position in cochlea, duration of implantation, clinical Consonant-Vowel-Consonant (CVC) scores, demographics, participant ratings of sound perception with the loudness balancing feature of CROS device, and percentage of words correct in a sentence or SRTs with the CROS feature. | — |
Countries
Netherlands