Hearing Outcomes with Nucleus® 8 and Nucleus® 7 Sound Processors
This study is looking at how well a special feature called ForwardFocus works in two different sound processors: the Nucleus® 8 Sound Processor and the Nucleus® 7 Sound Processor. ForwardFocus helps reduce background noise. The study includes adults aged 18 and older who have cochlear implants, including both veterans and non-veterans. Researchers want to see if the Nucleus 8 with its SCAN 2 ForwardFocus program helps people understand speech better in noisy environments compared to the Nucleus 7 with its SCAN ForwardFocus program. Success will be measured by how accurately participants understand speech in noise. The study is currently unclear on its recruitment status.
- Study design
- This interventional study plans to enroll 26 adult participants. It will compare the performance of two different sound processors.
- What's involved
- Participants will use each sound processor and complete speech understanding tests in background noise. They will also fill out questionnaires about their listening experiences.
- Compensation
- Not stated in the trial record.
- Follow-up
- Speech understanding will be measured at Week 2 and Week 4 after using the sound processors.
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Hearing Outcomes With the Nucleus® 8 Sound Processor and Nucleus® 7 Sound Processor in Adult Veteran and Non-veteran Cochlear Implant Recipients
At a glance
Conditions
Where it's being run
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What this trial measures
- Paired difference in AzBio percent correct in noise between the Nucleus 8 Sound Processor using the SCAN 2 FF program and the Nucleus 7 Sound Processor using the SCAN FF program at a fixed signal-to-noise ratio in the S0N90 spatial configurationWeek 2 and week 4
The AzBio sentence test is a validated test used to assess open-set sentence recognition. AzBio sentences are spoken in a conversational style with limited contextual cues that the listener can use to predict unintelligible words.