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- Clinical Trial NCT03379870
Outcomes in Children With Pre-operative Residual Hearing
Outcomes in Children With Cochlear Implants and Pre-Operative Residual Hearing: Electric Only and Electric-Acoustic Stimulation
Purpose: Routine clinical care and pilot study data has shown evidence of postoperative hearing preservation in pediatric cochlear implant (CI) recipients. The primary aim of this study is to investigate speech perception performance in pediatric CI recipients with functional pre-operative hearing.
Participants: Two cohorts of CI recipients aged 6 through 17 years who had pre-operative low frequency residual hearing. Subjects in Arm 1 will present with a post-operative low frequency pure tone average (125, 250, and 500 Hz) of ≤ 75 dB HL, and those in Arm 2 will present with a post-operative low frequency pure tone average (LFPTA) that exceeds 75 dB HL.
Procedures (methods): Subjects will complete speech perception and quality of life testing during post-operative intervals. Subjects in Arm 1 will be evaluated with the hearing aid alone (HA-alone) and with combined electric-acoustic stimulation (EAS). Subjects in Arm 2 will be evaluated with the CI-alone.
Study Overview
Status
Detailed Description
As children with more residual hearing are receiving cochlear implants (CIs), there is an opportunity to preserve that hearing and provide combined electric and acoustic stimulation (EAS). The primary aim of this study is to investigate speech perception performance in pediatric CI recipients with functional pre-operative hearing. Specifically, the investigators intend to compare speech understanding using EAS and traditional full electric stimulation.
While hearing preservation rates are good, they are not guaranteed. Children with progressive hearing loss may continue to lose hearing, even if they maintain some residual hearing immediately after surgery. As a secondary aim, the investigators intend to study outcomes in children who do not maintain residual hearing and are fit with traditional CI programming methods. Children with more residual hearing are being implanted, and this study design allows validation of outcomes in both populations.
Subject enrollment will occur on the initial stimulation date. Those who have maintained a low frequency hearing average of 75 dB HL or better will be fit with a SONNET EAS or SONNET 2 EAS device using combined acoustic and electric stimulation. Those who have not maintained low frequency hearing will be fit with a SONNET EAS or SONNET 2 EAS device using electric stimulation only. Subjects will be followed at regular intervals throughout the year duration of the study and will be tested on measures of speech understanding in quiet, speech understanding in noise, quality of life, and discrimination of prosody or pitch changes.
Study Type
Enrollment (Anticipated)
Phase
- Not Applicable
Contacts and Locations
Study Locations
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North Carolina
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Durham, North Carolina, United States, 27713-6102
- The Children's Cochlear Implant Center at UNC
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Participation Criteria
Eligibility Criteria
Ages Eligible for Study
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Description
Inclusion Criteria:
- Aged 5 through 17 years
- Spoken English as the primary language (speech perception testing conducted in English).
- Recipient of a MED-EL SYNCHRONY Cochlear Implant device.
- Pre-operative LFPTA of ≤ 75 dB HL.
- Willing and able to participate in study procedures.
- Realistic parental/patient expectations.
- Language skills judged to be adequate enough to perform study tasks.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Inability to perform open set speech perception due to oral motor delays.
- Inability to perform test battery due to behavior or cognitive impairment
- Unwilling or unable to participate in study procedures.
- Cochlear nerve deficiency.
- Anatomical considerations that necessitated surgical modifications such as ossification, incomplete insertion, or placement in scala vestibuli.
Study Plan
How is the study designed?
Design Details
- Primary Purpose: Treatment
- Allocation: Non-Randomized
- Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
- Masking: None (Open Label)
Arms and Interventions
Participant Group / Arm |
Intervention / Treatment |
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Experimental: Arm 1
Subjects who receive a CI and present with a post-operative LFPTA of ≤ 75 dB HL. Electric Acoustic Speech Processor: EAS fitting. They will be evaluated in the EAS condition and the hearing aid (HA) alone condition. |
Electric Acoustic Stimulation for children with post-operative residual low frequency hearing averages of 75 dB HL or better,
Other Names:
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Experimental: Arm 2
Subjects with pre-operative low frequency hearing who receive a CI and present with a post-operative LFPTA of > 75 dB HL. Electric Acoustic Speech Processor: Electric only fitting They will be evaluated in the traditional fully electric condition only. |
Electric Stimulation for children with post-operative residual low frequency hearing averages of 75 dB HL or poorer and pre-operative low frequency hearing averages of 75 dB HL or better.
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What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Mean CNC word scores, comparing EAS and CI-alone conditions at 12 months post stimulation (Arm 1 to Arm 2).
Time Frame: 12 months post stimulation
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The CNC word list is established as a standard test of speech perception outcomes.
Results for EAS and CI-alone conditions at 12 months post stimulation will be compared (Arm 1 to Arm 2).
Lower scores indicate a poorer outcome and higher scores a better outcome.
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12 months post stimulation
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Mean BKB-SIN SNR-50 scores, comparing EAS and CI-alone conditions at 12 months post stimulation (Arm 1 to Arm 2).
Time Frame: 12 months post-stimulation
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Sentences and babble will be presented from the same speaker.
An average score known as the SNR-50 will be obtained in both conditions.
The SNR-50 score is an estimate of the signal-to-noise ratio associated with 50% correct based on word-level scoring.
Results for EAS and CI-alone conditions at 12 months post stimulation will be compared (Arm 1 to Arm 2).
In this test, lower scores indicate a better outcome and higher scores a poorer outcome.
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12 months post-stimulation
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Secondary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Mean Pediatric SSQ scores, comparing Pre-operative and 12 month post stimulation scores in both groups.
Time Frame: 12 months post-stimulation
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The Speech, Spatial, and Qualities of Hearing (SSQ) Scale assesses performance in three domains, hearing speech in quiet and noise environments (9 items), spatial or directional hearing (5 items) and sound qualities (8 items), which address sound segregation and listening effort.
Each item is rated on a 11-point scale, with 0 as the lowest possible performance and 10 as the highest.. Domain scores represent an average of item ratings.
There is a version for children that will be used for this study.
Lower scores indicate a poorer outcome, and higher scores a better outcome.
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12 months post-stimulation
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Change in percent correct in single word scores in quiet, comparing pre- and post-stimulation scores in both groups
Time Frame: 12 months post-stimulation
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Mean single word scores in quiet, comparing scores obtained pre-operatively and in the primary post-operative listening condition in both groups.
Lower scores are a poorer outcome than higher scores.
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12 months post-stimulation
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Change in speech and language outcomes, comparing Pre- and post-stimulation scores in both groups.
Time Frame: 12 months post-stimulation
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Mean articulation, expressive, and receptive language scores, comparing pre-operative scores to the 12 month test point for both groups.
These tests are normed.
Scaled scores will be compared.
Low scores are indicative of a poorer outcome, and higher scores a better outcome.
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12 months post-stimulation
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Other Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Percent correct in prosodic identification scores, comparing EAS to CI-Alone conditions in Arm 1 participants
Time Frame: 12 months post-stimulation
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The Question/Answer Task identifies how well a child can perceive changes in pitch that change the meaning of a sentence.
Percent correct scores will be obtained and compared.
Lower scores indicate a poorer outcome, and higher scores a better outcome.
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12 months post-stimulation
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Collaborators and Investigators
Collaborators
Investigators
- Principal Investigator: Lisa Park, AuD, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Study record dates
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Terms related to this study
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Other Study ID Numbers
- 17-2360
Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)
Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?
Drug and device information, study documents
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