The present study investigates CI users' potential differences in speech tests, other performance measures (i.e. pitch-matching, perception of timbre and melodic intervals, consonance perception), and patient-reported outcome (i.e. questionnaires) between the clinical fitting map and anatomy-based fitting in two groups of CI users (one with standard fitting and one with anatomy-based fitting).
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
DOUBLE
Enrollment
60
One group is fitted using channel filterbank frequency distribution based on anatomy data extracted from post-OP CT measurements. The second (control) group is fitted with the standard frequency distribution used in MAESTRO 9 fitting software.
Medical University of Vienna
Vienna, Austria
RECRUITINGWord recognition score (WRS)
Percentage of correctly understood monosyllabic words from a list.
Time frame: 6 months
Speech reception threshold (SRT)
German matrix sentence test - speech to noise ratio in dB.
Time frame: 6 months
Pitch ranking
Difference of the mean ranks for a set of frequencies presented to the tested CI ear and the reference ear.
Time frame: 6 months
Perception of timbre
Visual Analog Scale ratings describing the difference in timbre between the tested CI ear and the reference ear when listening to audio.
Time frame: 6 months
Phoneme categorization
Shape of the psychometric function describing the perception of the /s/-/ʃ/ continuum.
Time frame: 6 months
Consonance/difference rating
The degree of modulation of the pleasantness-score across the individual intervals.
Time frame: 6 months
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