Comparison of Tinnitus Handicap Inventory and Tinnitus Functional Index as Treatment Outcomes

Fernández, Marta; Cuesta, María; Sanz, Ricardo; Cobo, Pedro

doi:10.3390/audiolres13010003

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“…This questionnaire has also been used in medical practice and has been tested for validity. Therefore, apart from providing sound therapy and pharmacological therapy, the Tinnitus Handicap Inventory can be used as an evaluator to assess how severe the tinnitus symptoms are and can be used as a post-therapy evaluation [21].…”

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Profile Psychoacoustic of Tinnitus Patients Based on Tinnitus Handicap Inventory Evaluation

Dillacocyta,

Purnami,

Sulistiawati

et al. 2023

IJRP

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Background: The increasing incidence of tinnitus comes from exposure to noise in the workplace and daily environment, both temporary and permanent. This study was conducted to understand the psychoacoustic characteristics of tinnitus patients in the outpatient unit of the Neurotology Division of Dr. RSUD. Soetomo. Method: Perspective research by collecting data from medical records. Results: The total consisted of 47 patients from November 2022 to May 2023. The ratio of female to male patients was 1.2: 1. Most were female, 26 patients (55.3%). The largest age group was 41-50, with 17 patients (36.2%). There were 47 patients with non-pulsatile tinnitus (100%). The number of acute tinnitus patients was 32 (68.1%). Thirty-six patients (76.6%) complained of unilateral tinnitus. A total of 25 patients (53.2%) did not experience hearing loss. There were 42 patients who did not have comorbidities (89.3%). In the psychoacoustic examination, it was found that in the majority of the pitch masking data, 11 patients (23.4%) had a tinnitus frequency of 4000 Hz, loudness matching at a moderate level was 14 patients (29.8%), minimum masking levels at a severe level were 17 patients (36.1%). The hearing threshold value was moderate in 16 patients (34%). Based on the Tinnitus Handicap Inventory score, the severity was 15 patients (31.9%).Conclusion: The majority of patients had a tinnitus frequency of 4000 Hz. Loudness matching is more at moderate degrees, minimum masking levels are at severe degrees, and hearing threshold values are mostly at moderate degrees.

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confidence: 99%

Profile Psychoacoustic of Tinnitus Patients Based on Tinnitus Handicap Inventory Evaluation

Dillacocyta,

Purnami,

Sulistiawati

et al. 2023

IJRP

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“…Since April 2021, participant also completed a new questionnaire, the Tinnitus Functional Index (TFI) [37][38] which was developed specifically to detect treatment-related changes of tinnitus. Fernández et al [22] demonstrated that both questionnaires were correlated (r = 0.74), behaved almost identically as evaluators of the tinnitus severity at baseline, and detected equally the changes related to the application of the EAE therapy.…”

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confidence: 94%

“…According to Jasterboff and Jastreboff [14], any type of sound that does not annoy, create discomfort, or damage hearing is better for tinnitus than silence. Nevertheless, customized sounds, personalized either to the tinnitus frequency [15][16][17][18] or the hearing thresholds [19][20][21][22], tend to provide more tinnitus relief.…”

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Sequential and Continuous Enriched Acoustic Environment as Customized Stimuli for Tinnitus Sound Therapy

Cuesta¹,

Cobo²

2023

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Tinnitus is a heterogeneous auditory disorder without a pharmacological cure but with several palliative treatments. One of the most applied treatments for tinnitus relief combines counselling with sound therapy. The efficiency of this sound therapy depends on the type of sound stimulus and the exposition time. The fundamentals of a customized sound therapy that stimulates the auditory system with a continuous or sequential sound which compensates for the subject hearing loss are described here. A sample of 137 tinnitus subjects are treated with this sound therapy, named Enriched Acoustic Environment. 90% of these patients achieved a clinically relevant and statistically significant tinnitus-related distress relief quantified as a mean drop of their Tinnitus Handicap Inventory score of 24.3 points. These subjects exposed with sequential stimuli (31%) achieved greater distress relief (5.1 points more in their Tinnitus Handicap Inventory score) than those stimulated with continuous sound (69%). Therefore, this sound constitutes an optimized stimulus for tinnitus treatment.

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“…In this study, several variables are measured. the dependent variable is assessed objectively with the Tinnitus Handicap Inventory (THI) [11], [12], Tinnitus Primary Function Questionnaire (TPFQ) [13], and subjectively with the Visual analog scale (VAS T ) [14] while the independent variable is giving de tinnitus Song with a sound generator or noise generator. Confounding variables such as risk factors have been stratified and matched so that each group has confounding variables that are not much different.…”

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Randomized Clinical Trial: Effectiveness of Tinnitus Treatment Using Music de Tinnitus Therapy Compared with Standard Therapy

Sutanegara,

Saputra,

Putra

et al. 2023

CLINICMED

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Background: Tinnitus is the perception of sound heard by a person without an external stimulus. Tinnitus can be divided into two, which tinnitus subjective and objective. About 10%–14.5% of the world’s population experience tinnitus. The management of tinnitus is still a challenge for researchers. Until now, there has been no effective management of tinnitus. The last therapy available is to make artificial sounds that imitate the tinnitus sound so that it can mask the actual tinnitus sound. In addition, Song therapy is expected to reduce the stress level of tinnitus patients. Methods: This research uses a double-blind randomized clinical trial with stratified and matching risk factors from the sample then the sample is randomized to get 104 samples consisting of 52 control groups and 52 experimental groups. Both groups will be assessed objectively with the Tinnitus Handicap Inventory (THI), and Tinnitus Primary Function Questionnaire (TPFQ), and subjectively with the Visual Analog Scale (VAST) before and after using the application. Assessment is done using the google form. The control group will be given an application containing a sound generator and the experimental group will be given an application containing de tinnitus Song. Both groups used the app for 2 hours daily for 3 months. Song de tinnitus was obtained from previous studies. Results: The difference in risk factors in the two groups was 0.01 and the data obtained to be tested is normally distributed with the Kolmogorov Smirnov test (Sig > 0.1). We used a significance level of 95% and a research power of 0.1 with the result that there was a difference between the control group and the experimental group, better on the experimental group test with Chi-Square THI (p ∼ 0.005), TPFQ (p ∼ 0.004) and VAST (p ∼ 0.002). THI (Relative risk reduction (RRR) = 59% Absolute risk reduction (ARR) = 25%, number needed to treat (NNT) = 4, TPFQ (RRR = 53.84%, ARR = 26.92%, NNT = 3.71) and VAST (RRR = 72.22%, ARR = 25%, NNT = 4). Conclusion: We got better results using the app with de tinnitus Song (Music de Tinnitus) than using standard therapy.

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Comparison of Tinnitus Handicap Inventory and Tinnitus Functional Index as Treatment Outcomes

Cited by 5 publications

References 35 publications

Profile Psychoacoustic of Tinnitus Patients Based on Tinnitus Handicap Inventory Evaluation

Profile Psychoacoustic of Tinnitus Patients Based on Tinnitus Handicap Inventory Evaluation

Sequential and Continuous Enriched Acoustic Environment as Customized Stimuli for Tinnitus Sound Therapy

Randomized Clinical Trial: Effectiveness of Tinnitus Treatment Using Music de Tinnitus Therapy Compared with Standard Therapy

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