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A Clinical Investigation of the Benefit: BTE Hearing Aids Versus ITE Hearing Aids

Hearing Loss Clinical Trial

Official title:
A Clinical Investigation of the Benefit of Directionality as a Function of Microphone Location: BTE Hearing Aids Versus ITE Hearing Aids

Clinical Trial Summary

The current study will evaluate a new in-the-ear (ITE) hearing aid hardware. The goal is to evaluate the audiological performance, usability, feature function, and to identify unexpected or unwanted behaviour from the devices. The study plans to compare the behind-the-ear (BTE) hardware style with the ITE devices regarding the benefit received from different microphone locations.

Clinical Trial Description

Hearing aids constantly undergo incremental improvements from already marketed devices. The new devices are expected to perform as well or better than the previous ITE devices.

The aim of the testing is to grant quality control prior to product launch according to Bernafon development requirements.

The current study will evaluate a new ITE hearing aid hardware. The firmware driving the hearing aid has already been sold on the market using the BTE hardware for almost one year and will now be launched using the ITE custom hardware. The goal is to evaluate the audiological performance, usability, feature function, and to identify unexpected or unwanted behaviour from the devices. The study plans to compare the two hardware styles regarding the benefit received from different microphone locations.

As human subjects are involved the validation falls under the definition of a clinical investigation. The validation will address the performance of the new chip using the ITE hardware, and ensure that there is no reduction in speech understanding between using the BTE and ITE hardware styles. Evaluating the overall performance of the Mermaid 9 ITE devices is important to validate that the end user is satisfied with the devices and that all user requirements are fulfilled. All features available in Mermaid 9 have been validated and are currently used on the market in Mermaid 9 BTE devices. ;

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Clinical Trial Details
NCT number NCT04168229
Study type Interventional
Source Bernafon AG
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Status Completed
Phase N/A
Start date July 12, 2018
Completion date August 13, 2018
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