Effectiveness of hearing aids in treating patients with chronic tinnitus with average hearing levels of &lt;30 dBHL and no inconvenience due to hearing loss

Suzuki, Noriomi; Shinden, Seiichi; Oishi, Naoki; Ueno, Masafumi; Suzuki, Daisuke; Ogawa, Kaoru; Ozawa, Hiroyuki

doi:10.1080/00016489.2021.1957145

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“…[ 16 ] Improving the hearing status of patients with HL can enhance the levels of anxiety, depression, and tinnitus annoyance. [ 36 37 ] Based on Pearson correlation analysis, HL can be associated with emotional disorders in the participants, with a strong correlation. Therefore, patients need to improve their lifestyle, change their mental state, relieve emotional changes, and use drugs for tinnitus treatment.…”

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Correlation between the Degree of Hearing Loss and the Levels of Anxiety and Depression in Patients with Tinnitus

You,

Zhang,

2023

Noise Health

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Objectives: This study aimed to explore the correlation between the degree of hearing loss (HL) and the degrees of anxiety and depression in patients with tinnitus. Materials and Methods: This retrospective study involved the use of basic clinical data from 600 enrolled patients with tinnitus who visited the otolaryngology clinic in Affiliated Jinhua Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine from April 2020 to June 2022. The tinnitus handicap inventory (THI) scale was used to assess the tinnitus status among the participants. The pure tone audiometry (PTA) test was used to conduct audiological assessments for all patients to determine their hearing condition. The self-rating anxiety scale (SAS) and self-rating depression scale (SDS) were used to assess the levels of anxiety and depression among the participants, respectively. The correlation between the HL and anxiety/depression scores from the questionnaires was tested through Pearson correlation analysis. Results: Among the 600 enrolled patients with tinnitus, most patients had mild-to-moderate degree of tinnitus, accounting for 248 cases (41.3%) and 179 cases (29.8%), respectively. PTA results showed that a large proportion of patients with tinnitus were accompanied with HL (467 cases, 77.8%). Among them, patients with mild HL accounted for the largest proportion with a total of 241 cases (40.2%). Based on the results of SAS and SDS test, almost half of the patients had symptoms of anxiety and depression, accounting for 52.3% (314 cases) and 48.8% (293 cases), respectively. Similarly, patients with mild anxiety and depression occupy the largest proportion, accounting for 35.8% (215 cases) and 23% (138 cases), respectively. Pearson correlation analysis showed that the degree of HL was closely related to THI/SAS/SDS scores ( P < 0.001). Conclusion: These findings indicate a strong positive correlation between the degree of HL and anxiety/depression scores in patients with tinnitus.

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Correlation between the Degree of Hearing Loss and the Levels of Anxiety and Depression in Patients with Tinnitus

You,

Zhang,

2023

Noise Health

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“…Specifically, average 8 kHz thresholds are higher by 11–14 dB compared to worse-ear fittings across the three HL patterns in this region. We considered the possibility that a second HA was provided to patients in region 2 to help with tinnitus in that ear ( Henry et al, 2015 ; Suzuki et al, 2021 ), but the prevalence of tinnitus (as determined by the presence of a diagnostic code) among bilateral fittings was the same as that for worse-ear fittings. However, in analyses covering the whole sample, we found other infrequently encountered pathologies, such as ear infection or stroke, to be associated with an increased likelihood of unilateral fittings.…”

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Fitting a Hearing Aid on the Better Ear, Worse Ear, or Both: Associations of Hearing-aid Fitting Laterality with Outcomes in a Large Sample of US Veterans

Zobay,

Naylor,

Saunders

et al. 2023

Trends in Hearing

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Longitudinal electronic health records from a large sample of new hearing-aid (HA) recipients in the US Veterans Affairs healthcare system were used to evaluate associations of fitting laterality with long-term HA use persistence as measured by battery order records, as well as with short-term HA use and satisfaction as assessed using the International Outcome Inventory for Hearing Aids (IOI-HA), completed within 180 days of HA fitting. The large size of our dataset allowed us to address two aspects of fitting laterality that have not received much attention, namely the degree of hearing asymmetry and the question of which ear to fit if fitting unilaterally. The key findings were that long-term HA use persistence was considerably lower for unilateral fittings for symmetric hearing loss (HL) and for unilateral worse-ear fittings for asymmetric HL, as compared to bilateral and unilateral better-ear fittings. In contrast, no differences across laterality categories were observed for short-term self-reported HA usage. Total IOI-HA score was poorer for unilateral fittings of symmetric HL and for unilateral better-ear fittings compared to bilateral for asymmetric HL. We thus conclude that bilateral fittings yield the best short- and long-term outcomes, and while unilateral and bilateral fittings can result in similar outcomes on some measures, we did not identify any HL configuration for which a bilateral fitting would lead to poorer outcomes. However, if a single HA is to be fitted, then our results indicate that a better-ear fitting has a higher probability of long-term HA use persistence than a worse-ear fitting.

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“…2 ). Overall, 90% of patients felt a significant improvement in tinnitus distress [ 24 ]. The study shows that tinnitus distress is reduced even when there is only a minor hearing loss, usually high-pitched, where subjectively the hearing loss is not even perceptible to the patients.…”

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“…2 Changes in tinnitus exposure in patients with mild high-frequency hearing loss 3 months and 1 year after treatment with hearing aids alone. Modified according to [ 24 ] …”

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Interventions against hearing loss as an integral component of successful tinnitus therapy

Hesse,

Kastellis

2023

HNO

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Tinnitus very often develops from acute or chronic hearing loss, mainly inner ear deafness. The frequency of the tinnitus mostly corresponds to the frequency range of the hearing loss and is enhanced by down-regulation of inhibition in the central auditory pathway for these frequencies, in addition to focused attention and enhanced arousal for the disturbing sound. Therefore, interventions to improve hearing such as mid-ear surgery or—more often—electronic devices including hearing aids or cochlear implants (CI) are important for the treatment of tinnitus. In this review, the current German S3 guideline “Chronic tinnitus” and recent literature are discussed.

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Effectiveness of hearing aids in treating patients with chronic tinnitus with average hearing levels of <30 dBHL and no inconvenience due to hearing loss

Cited by 9 publications

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Correlation between the Degree of Hearing Loss and the Levels of Anxiety and Depression in Patients with Tinnitus

Correlation between the Degree of Hearing Loss and the Levels of Anxiety and Depression in Patients with Tinnitus

Fitting a Hearing Aid on the Better Ear, Worse Ear, or Both: Associations of Hearing-aid Fitting Laterality with Outcomes in a Large Sample of US Veterans

Interventions against hearing loss as an integral component of successful tinnitus therapy

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