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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).
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
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| Anatomy based fitting | Experimental |
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| Standard fitting | Active Comparator |
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| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
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| frequency distribution type | Other | 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. |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Word recognition score (WRS) | Percentage of correctly understood monosyllabic words from a list. | 6 months |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Speech reception threshold (SRT) | German matrix sentence test - speech to noise ratio in dB. | 6 months |
| Pitch ranking | Difference of the mean ranks for a set of frequencies presented to the tested CI ear and the reference ear. |
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Inclusion Criteria:
Exclusion Criteria:
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| Name | Role | Phone | Extension | |
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| Dominik Riss, MD | Contact | +43 1 40400 33760 | dominik.riss@meduniwien.ac.at |
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| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
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| Medical University of Vienna | Recruiting | Vienna | 1180 | Austria |
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The performance with the CI is investigated over time in two groups of freshly implanted CI users. The first group is fitted using the standard frequency-band distribution as implemented in MAESTRO 9 fitting software. In the second group of users, an anatomy-based frequency distribution is used as per anatomy-based fitting in MAESTRO 9.
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double blinded design: both the participant and the investigator have no information about the treatment group.
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| 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. | 6 months |
| Phoneme categorization | Shape of the psychometric function describing the perception of the /s/-/ʃ/ continuum. | 6 months |
| Consonance/difference rating | The degree of modulation of the pleasantness-score across the individual intervals. | 6 months |