Hearing loss
Conditions
Interventions
Sponsors
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Normal-hearing subjects: - 16 year of age or older - Normal-hearing listeners should have normal hearing, namely an average pure-tone threshold of 35 dB or less across a frequency range of 500-4000 Hz. CI users: - Implanted with a CI at least on one side; - 16 years of age or older; - Post-lingual deafness - At least six months experience with their CI; - A speech understanding score (CVC phoneme test) of at least 50%; - Wearing a hearing aid in the nonimplanted ear is possible. - Express interest and have affinity in participating in a study on music and CIs
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: - Disorders other than a hearing impairment that could affect the study results, such as psychiatric disorders or physical disorders that would limit their ability to undergo testing (e.g., movement disorders or blindness) - Prelingual deafness - Not able to complete three hours of consecutive testing - Not native Dutch speaker - Pregnant women - Women who are breastfeeding
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| MuSHRA test outcomes, i.e., overall music quality/ enjoyment/ experience, distortion/ naturalness, speech/ vocal quality, instrumental quality, subjective ratings on a Likert scale, or a continuous scale when sliders are used on a GUI. | — |
Countries
Netherlands
Contacts
Leids Universitair Medisch Centrum