Clinical Trial

Understanding Individual Listening Strategies

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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
Protocol Amendment History 1 amendment
This ClinicalTrials.gov record has been amended once since 2025-04-29.
Trial Details
NCT Number NCT06962540
Lead Sponsor Northwestern University
Conditions Hearing Loss, Sensorineural
Enrollment 30 participants
Start Date 2025-04-18
Primary Completion 2027-07 (estimated)
Study Completion 2027-07 (estimated)
Updated on ClinicalTrials.gov 2026-05-04