Eligibility Module
The Eligibility Module contains detailed information about who can participate in the clinical trial. This includes eligibility criteria, age restrictions, gender requirements, healthy volunteer status, and study population descriptions, helping researchers understand who is eligible to participate in the study.
Eligibility Module path is as follows:
Study -> Protocol Section -> Eligibility Module
Eligibility Module
Ignite Creation Date:
2025-12-24 @ 11:57 PM
Ignite Modification Date:
2025-12-24 @ 11:57 PM
NCT ID:
NCT03512951
Eligibility Criteria:
Subjects fulfilling all of the following inclusion criteria are eligible for the study:
* Willing and able to give written informed consent as documented by signature,
* French-native adult speakers,
* (Preferably) younger than 60 y.o.
For all normal-hearing participants:
\- Hearing thresholds lower or equal to 20 dB on both ears, as ensured by a pure-tone audiometry (125 Hz to 8 kHz) conducted at the beginning of the session.
For all hearing-impaired patients:
* Patients of Mr. Philippe Estoppey, private audiologist settled in Lausanne,
* User of bilateral BTE Phonak hearing aids, commercialized after July 2012, with fittings that did not change over the last three months,
* Presenting a severe-to-profound sensorineural hearing loss,
* Presenting a symmetrical hearing loss (no bilateral hearing threshold that differ by more than 20 dB at any audiometric frequency (125 Hz - 4 kHz)).
For HI patients experienced with remote microphone systems:
\- Past or present users of FM and/or Roger devices for more than six months.
For other HI patients:
\- No past or present experience with FM and/or Roger devices for more than one month.
The presence of any one of the following exclusion criteria will lead to exclusion of the participant:
* Collaborator of the laboratory (LTS2) or student attending the courses of audio and acoustics given by the laboratory staff (EE-348 Electroacoustics, EE-548 Audio Engineering),
* History of chronic or terminal illness, psychiatric disturbance, senile dementia, or cognitive impairment,
* History of strong tinnitus and/or hyperacusis,
* Strong visual impairment after correction with glasses or not,
* History of epilepsy or other reactions associated with the proximity to a screen,
* Motor disability that would disturb their presence at EPFL.
Healthy Volunteers:
True
Sex:
ALL
Minimum Age:
18 Years
Maximum Age:
60 Years
Study:
NCT03512951
Study Brief:
Protocol Section:
NCT03512951