Katiri, Roulla https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7098-8024
Hall, Deborah A. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3804-1452
Hoare, Derek J. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8768-1392
Fackrell, Kathryn https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6529-8643
Horobin, Adele https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7120-4612
Hogan, Nicholas https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0437-1813
Buggy, Nóra https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9521-9010
Van de Heyning, Paul H. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8424-3717
Firszt, Jill B. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2531-3049
Bruce, Iain A. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0831-4760
Kitterick, Pádraig T. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8383-5318
,
Snik, Ad
Sygrove, Carly
Campbell-Bell, Cherith
Parker, Christopher
Zeitler, Daniel M.
Williams, Lewis
Oxford, Maxine
Boyle, Patrick
James, Paul K.
Hill-Feltham, Penelope R.
Toth, Peter
Bowles, Richard
Nicholson, Richard
Bayston, Roger
Rosenbom, Tove
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institute for Health Research (BRC-1215-20003)
Article History
Received: 27 March 2022
Accepted: 1 September 2022
First Online: 8 September 2022
Declarations
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: Ethical approval has been authorised by the Nottingham 2 Research Ethics Committee (IRAS Project ID: 239750), Health Research Authority (HRA) and Health and Care Research Wales (HCRW), Reference: 19/EM/0222. Informed consent was obtained from all study participants as per approved final study protocol version 2.0, dated 06 July 2019; and non-substantial category C amendment according to the HRA guidance for COVID-19 (Sponsor Reference: 19032, amendment number: NSA01), dated 21 April 2020.
: Not applicable.
: PTK declares receiving research grants and support in kind awarded to his institution for research projects in the field of SSD from manufacturers of hearing devices. PHVH declares research grants to his institution (UZA) from MED-EL (Innsbruck, Austria) and Cochlear® (Basel, Switzerland). JBF declares research grants to her institution from Cochlear® Americas (Lone Tree, Colorado) and Advanced Bionics (Valencia, California). All other authors declare that they have no competing interests.