Custom hearing aid settings for people with sensorineural hearing loss
Compares hearing aid settings in people with sensorineural hearing loss.
Key facts
- Who runs it
- Northwestern University
- Where
- Evanston, United StatesSee the site
- Trial code
- Registry title
- Understanding Individual Listening Strategies
- Status
- Enrolling by invitation
- People taking part
- 30 people, planned
- Started
- 18 Apr 2025
- Expected to end
- Jul 2027
- Type of study
- Interventional, 2 groupsOne group gets an existing treatment, for comparison.
- Treatments tested
- Hearing aid with settings customized to match their individual listening strategy
- Hearing Aid with settings based on audiogram alone
- Record updated
- 4 May 2026
Who can take part
AI summary
From the trial's eligibility criteria. Machine-read from the registry text on this page, so it can be wrong. The registry text below and the trial team decide who can take part.
The trial is looking for adults with sensorineural hearing loss (hearing loss from the inner ear or hearing nerve). They will test two hearing aid settings in one 2-hour lab visit.
- Age
- 18 Years to 90 Years
- Sex
- All sexes can join.
- Disease stage
- Sensorineural hearing loss.
Main reasons for not taking part
- A score below 23 points on the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (a memory and thinking test).
The registry criteria, word for word
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Who can take part
- Sensorineural hearing loss
Who cannot take part
- Montreal Cognitive Assessment < 23 points
Check if you might fit
Answer for yourself. This is not a decision: only the study team can say whether you can take part.
- Are you between 18 and 90 years old?
Where in United States
- Northwestern UniversityEvanston, United StatesEnrolling by invitation
About the trial
What the trial wants to find out
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:
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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
The 2 groups in the trial
- Customized to match listening strategy FirstExisting treatment, for comparison
Participants in this arm will listen to hearing aid settings programmed to match their listening strategy first, then the general setting
Treatment: Hearing aid with settings customized to match their individual listening strategy and Hearing Aid with settings based on audiogram alone
- Not customized to match listening strategy FirstExisting treatment, for comparison
Participants will listen to hearing aid settings based only on their pure-tone thresholds first (general hearing aid settings), then ones programmed to match their listening strategies.
Treatment: Hearing aid with settings customized to match their individual listening strategy and Hearing Aid with settings based on audiogram alone
Questions to ask the study team
- How often do I need to come in, and for how long each time?
- Are travel costs paid?
- Can I keep my own doctor?
- What happens if I want to stop?
Contact the study team: see the registry record → Contacts and Locations
Print a page for my doctorData and sources
- Registry record
- Listed on ClinicalTrials.gov.
- Official title
- Understanding Individual Listening Strategies
- Plain-language title
- Custom hearing aid settings for people with sensorineural hearing lossGenerated from the registry record. The registry title is the official one.
- AI summary
- From the trial's eligibility criteria. Read by machine on 14 November 2026.
- Fit questions
- Built from NCT06962540, who can take part
- Record updated
- 4 May 2026