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Register: German Clinical Trials Register
Last refreshed on: 8 April 2024
Main ID:  DRKS00007567
Date of registration: 02/01/2015
Prospective Registration: Yes
Primary sponsor: Institut für Audiopädagogik - IfAP
Public title: Hearing Devices in Persons 50-90 Years old having a Hearing Loss of 50-90 dB.
Scientific title: Hearing Devices in Persons 50-90 Years old having a Hearing Loss of 50-90 dB. - HD5090
Date of first enrolment: 05/01/2015
Target sample size: 700
Recruitment status: Recruiting
URL:  http://drks.de/search/en/trial/DRKS00007567
Study type:  observational
Study design:  Allocation: ; Masking: ; Control: ; Assignment: ; Study design purpose: Prognosis  
Phase: 
Countries of recruitment
Austria Germany
Contacts
Name: Frans    Coninx
Address:  Ohligser Markt 11 42697 Solingen Germany
Telephone: 0212-2335320
Email: f.coninx@ifap.info
Affiliation:  Institut für Audiopädagogik (IfAP)
Name: Frans    Coninx
Address:  Ohligser Markt 11 42697 Solingen Germany
Telephone: 0212-2335320
Email: f.coninx@ifap.info
Affiliation:  Institut für Audiopädagogik (IfAP)
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Age ca. 50-90 years.
Test groups: user of a Hearing device (Hearing Aid and/or CI)
Controll Group: not using a Hearing Device

Exclusion criteria: - participant has no or very limited German language skills. Hearing tests based on German language can not be performed
- cognitive functioning is low and not enough to run the HD5090 test profile


Age minimum: 50 Years
Age maximum: 90 Years
Gender: All
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied

H90
H91
Conductive and sensorineural hearing loss
Other hearing loss
Intervention(s)
Group 1: Patients with Hearing Aid(s) in the test Group "HA": one single measurement using the HD5090 Profile.
This Profile contains a questionnaire and mainly a few adaptive tests that measure auditory skills at various Levels: pure tone detection, word recognition thresholds in quiet and in noise, phoneme recognition and cognitive skills involved in word reading.

Group 2: Patients with Cochlear Implant(s) in the test Group "CI": one single measurement using the HD5090 Profile.
This Profile contains a questionnaire and mainly a few adaptive tests that measure auditory skills at various Levels: pure tone detection, word recognition thresholds in quiet and in noise, phoneme recognition and cognitive skills involved in word reading.

Group 3: Persons not using any Hearing Device in the test Group "reference": one single measurement using the HD5090 Profile.
This Profile contains a questionnaire and mainly a few adaptive tests that measure auditory skills at various Levels: pure tone detection, word recognition thresholds in quiet and in noise, phoneme recognition and cognitive skills involved in word reading.
Primary Outcome(s)
All participants will be tested only once with the HD5090 Profile.
This Profile contains a questionnaire and mainly a few adaptive tests that measure auditory skills at various Levels: pure tone detection, word recognition thresholds in quiet and in noise, phoneme recognition and cognitive skills involved in word reading.

Data from participants (aged 50 to 90 years) who are wearing Hearing Aids or Cochlear Implants are included in the categories "Hearings Aids" and "Cochlear Implants".
Additionally, participants in the Age range 50-90 years who are not wearing a Hearing device will be tested as well. These data are used for controll i.e. reference purposes.

Tests are performed only once by the own Hearing Aid Acoustician, ENT-docotr or CI-Center.

Secondary Outcome(s)
Secondary ID(s)
U1111-1164-5388
Source(s) of Monetary Support
MEDEL
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Ethics review
Status: Approved
Approval date: 17/12/2014
Contact:
gs-ek@uni-koeln.de
Ethikkommission der Medizinischen Fakultät der Universität zu Köln
+49-221-478 82900
gs-ek@uni-koeln.de
Results
Results available:
Date Posted:
Date Completed:
URL: http://drks.de/search/en/trial/DRKS00007567#studyResults
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