RECRUITING

Listening Effort in Cochlear Implant Users

Study Overview

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Description

People with hearing loss experience extra effort when listening, which can lead to severe psychological barriers to communication and social participation. Listening effort can lead to fatigue, mental strain, burnout, medical sick leave, and the need for increased time to recover from regular daily activities. This proposal aims to understand effort changes on a moment-to-moment basis during listening, how long the effort lasts, and how the planning and execution of effort is impacted by the experience of using a cochlear implant.

Official Title

Listening Effort in Cochlear Implant Users

Quick Facts

Study Start:2023-09-01
Study Completion:2028-08-31
Study Type:Not specified
Phase:Not Applicable
Enrollment:Not specified
Status:RECRUITING

Study ID

NCT06516575

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Ages Eligible for Study:18 Years to 75 Years
Sexes Eligible for Study:ALL
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:Yes
Standard Ages:ADULT, OLDER_ADULT
Inclusion CriteriaExclusion Criteria
  1. * Be an adult between the age of 18 to 75 years
  2. * Have had normal hearing and speech/language development as a young child
  3. * For younger NH listeners: have normal audiometric thresholds below 25 dB HL at frequencies between 250 and 8000 Hz
  4. * for cochlear implant listeners: at least 6 months experience with a cochlear implant
  5. * For older (55+ years) age-matched listeners with no cochlear implant: normal audiometric thresholds below 25 dB HL at frequencies between 250 and 2000 Hz and thresholds below 35 dB HL (hearing level) between 4000 and 8000 Hz
  6. * For cochlear implant listeners: be able to recognize spoken words in English at a rate of at least 50%
  7. * Be a competent speaker of north American English
  8. * Lack language-learning or other cognitive disabilities
  9. * Lack of auditory neuropathy spectrum disorder
  1. * unable to fix gaze position
  2. * eye disease preventing typical changes in pupil dilation
  3. * lack of perceptual and productive fluency in English

Contacts and Locations

Study Contact

Matthew Winn, PhD, AuD
CONTACT
612-624-4733
mwinn@umn.edu
Katherine Teece, AuD
CONTACT
henn0158@umn.edu

Study Locations (Sites)

University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, Minnesota, 55455
United States

Collaborators and Investigators

Sponsor: University of Minnesota

Study Record Dates

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Study Registration Dates

Study Start Date2023-09-01
Study Completion Date2028-08-31

Study Record Updates

Study Start Date2023-09-01
Study Completion Date2028-08-31

Terms related to this study

Keywords Provided by Researchers

  • cochlear implants
  • listening effort

Additional Relevant MeSH Terms

  • Auditory Perception; Abnormal
  • Hearing Loss, Sensorineural
  • Hearing Loss