The Listening Effort Study
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Listening effort and downstream effects due to hearing loss in children and young people
IRAS ID
314726
Contact name
Iain Alexander Bruce
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 9 months, 30 days
Research summary
One of the paramount challenges to the clinical application of the concept of listening effort is the lack of consensus on how to measure the abstract notion. Many different measures have been postulated ranging from self-reported measures to physiological biomarkers. Yet, frustratingly, despite the myriad of proposed tools, the evidence to support one optimum measure is nominal. Correlational analysis between different measures often shows conditional and weak relationships between measures indicating they are capturing different dimensions of listening effort. This finding was further corroborated in a recent systematic review within our department which is currently awaiting publication. Therefore, future research should consider different approaches to measuring listening effort and one such way would be to focus on its corollaries rather than the innate concept. This study explores the use of existing questionnaire-based outcome measurement instruments in the evaluation of listening effort and its associated consequences in children and young people (CYP), with and without hearing loss.
REC name
West of Scotland REC 1
REC reference
22/WS/0134
Date of REC Opinion
12 Oct 2022
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion