The Effect of Hearing Adjustment on the Ease and Effectiveness of Communication, and the Role of Cognitive Resources
Status: Recruiting
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Intervention Type: Device
Study Type: Interventional
Study Phase: Not Applicable
SUMMARY
This randomised controlled trial aims to test the effect of hearing adjustment using hearing aids, on the ease and effectiveness of communication such as listening effort, fatigue, and sentence recognition in noise, in addition to wellbeing and sleep; and to reveal the role of cognitive resources and sleep efficiency in this relationship.
Eligibility
Participation Requirements
Sex: All
Minimum Age: 60
Maximum Age: 99
Healthy Volunteers: t
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• Aged 60 or older
• Hearing aid candidate (hearing loss of an average of 25 dB HL or worse)
• Novice to hearing aids
Locations
Other Locations
United Kingdom
Manchester Centre for Audiology and Deafness
RECRUITING
Manchester
Contact Information
Primary
Stephanie Loukieh, Masters Degree
stephanie.loukieh@manchester.ac.uk
+447534888851
Backup
Karolina Kluk-de Kort, Doctorate
Karolina.Kluk@manchester.ac.uk
Time Frame
Start Date: 2025-07-01
Estimated Completion Date: 2025-09-30
Participants
Target number of participants: 60
Treatments
Experimental: Hearing Aid Group
This group will be fitted with hearing aids and will be the intervention group.
No_intervention: Information Session Control Group
This group will receive an information session during the time that the experimental group receives the hearing-aid fitting about available hearing care solutions.
Related Therapeutic Areas
Sponsors
Leads: University of Manchester
Collaborators: Sonova AG