An observational study in Cochlear Hearing Loss, sponsored by Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust. Completed at 1 site in United Kingdom. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2023-11-13.
Sponsored by Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust · Observational
An observational study to determine and assess perception of prosodic information in adults who use bimodal stimulation (cochlear implant plus hearing aid) when using both devices vs. cochlear implant alone.
People with severe to profound hearing loss often do not get satisfactory benefit from their hearing aids. A cochlear implant (CI) is a prosthetic device for the inner ear which can directly stimulate the auditory nerve, bypassing damaged inner ear hair cells and thus provide audible sensations to profoundly deaf patients.
Currently, one CI is funded by NHS England for adult patients and the eligibility criteria for implantation has been relaxed in recent years. As a result, there are now an increasing number of unilateral CI users who possess low-frequency residual hearing in their non-implanted ear. For many patients this residual hearing may still be usefully amplified by a HA. This configuration, consisting of a CI and a contralateral HA, is known as bimodal stimulation.
The PEPS-C receptive test battery has been previously used to assess prosody perception in hearing loss.
The current project will use selected tests from the PEPS-C prosodic test battery to assess intonation, emotion and phrase stress perception ability in adults with bimodal stimulation using both devices together and CI alone.
375 studies on the registry are indexed under Hearing Loss, Sensorineural; 108 are open to participants now.
This study's enrollment of 16 is below the median of 78 across 95 observational studies indexed under Hearing Loss, Sensorineural.
Browse Hearing Loss, Sensorineural studies →Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust is the lead sponsor of 294 studies on the registry; 79 are open to participants now.
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Patients at St. Thomas' Hearing Implant Centre
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Exclusion Criteria:
Contralateral Hearing Aid to Cochlear Implant
PEPS-C speech test battery
Test battery of 7 speech tests examining prosodic elements of speech, each section scored out of 16 (112 in total higher scores better outcome)
Time frame: Tested at one time point at day 1 of study after recruitment in both Cochlear Implant Alone and Cochlear Implant and Hearing Aid Together conditions
AB words speech test
Word speech discrimination test in quiet, 30 words presented, scored as % correct, higher score better outcome
Time frame: Tested at one time point at day 1 of study after recruitment in both Cochlear Implant Alone and Cochlear Implant and Hearing Aid Together conditions
SSQ12 Questionnaire
Speech Spatial Qualities patient reported outcome measure, scored out of 120 higher scores better outcome
Time frame: Tested at one time point at day 1 of study after recruitment in both Cochlear Implant Alone and Cochlear Implant and Hearing Aid Together conditions
Unaided Soundfield Audiometry
Soundfield hearing test without Cochlear Implant or Hearing Aid
Time frame: Tested at one time point at day 1 of study after recruitment
BKB sentences speech test
Sentences speech discrimination test in quiet, 100 words presented, 50 male, 50 female voice, scored as %
Time frame: Tested at one time point at day 1 of study after recruitment in both Cochlear Implant Alone and Cochlear Implant and Hearing Aid Together conditions
This study is completed, as verified in Nov 2023. You cannot join it, but the record below documents what was studied.
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