What this means
This is a plan to test whether hearing aids help people with age-related hearing loss tell sounds apart. It is a registration, so no results have been reported yet.
Plain-English summary written by an AI model from the registry listing.
- Status
- Recruiting
- Who can join
- Ages 18–80
- Where
- 1 site, including Florida
The science
- Registered title
- Understanding Aided Speech Perception in Noise
- Trial ID
- NCT06377215 ↗
- Phase
- Not applicable
- Study type
- interventional
- Conditions
- Hearing Impairment, Sensorineural, Spatial Perception, Aging, Hearing Aids
- What is tested
- Open-source master hearing aid
- Sponsor
- University of South Florida
- Ages
- 18 Years to 80 Years
- Dates
- First posted Apr 22, 2024 · updated Dec 22, 2025
Registry summary
The overarching hypothesis to be evaluated using this protocol is that age-related hearing loss (ARHL) leads to shifts in the functional spatial boundaries between segregated and integrated auditory streams, and that hearing aid intervention that relies on directional processing schemes is most effective for those that have the poorest spatial sensitivity. One key component of the research design is to measure both behavioral and neurophysiological indices of an individual's spatial segregation boundary. The second key component is to measure the cost or benefit associated with hearing aid intervention in older hearing-impaired listeners. The final component is to relate cost and benefit of hearing aid intervention to spatial sensitivity measures that might predict the efficacy of clinical intervention.
Sites (1)
- USF Research Park BPB, 3802 Spectrum Boulevard, Suite 210C, Tampa, Florida, United States