Loudness of Tinnitus: An Approach to Measurement

Hinchcliffe, R.; Chambers, Christine

doi:10.1159/000407489

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“…Approaches to tinnitus loudness measurement have been introduced by several studies [Goodwin and Johnson, 1980;Hinchcliffe and Chambers, 1983;Jakes et al, 1986;Penner and Saran, 1994], but a uniformly accepted, standardized method for tinnitus measurement remains to be found [Hart, 1999;Henry and Meikle, 2000].…”

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Characteristics of Tinnitus Induced by Acute Acoustic Trauma: A Long-Term Follow-Up

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We investigated the prevalence, characteristics and subjective perceived handicap caused by long-term tinnitus induced by acute acoustic trauma (AAT) in 418 former military conscripts. They had been treated between 1984 and 1989 because of AAT from exposure to impulse noise caused by firearm shooting. All 418 patients reported tinnitus after the AAT. At discharge from the military service, 122 (29%) still reported tinnitus. In 1999, of these 122 patients, 101 were reached and 66 still had tinnitus. The Tinnitus Handicap Questionnaire demonstrated various difficulties in life because of tinnitus, not attributable only to tinnitus loudness. Psychological factors also seem to play an important role. The effects of AAT and possible compensation have been evaluated so far mostly by audiometric findings, but in some cases tinnitus may be an even more serious threat to life satisfaction than mild hearing impairment.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Characteristics of Tinnitus Induced by Acute Acoustic Trauma: A Long-Term Follow-Up

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“…Penner concluded that tinnitus loudness might better be expressed in sones, as suggested by Tyler and Conrad-Armes (1983a), and that tinnitus matched to a small value in dB SL might reasonably be expected to seem "loud" to the patient . Hinchcliffe and Chambers (1983) pointed out that tones calculated to be 1 sone in loudness may be perceived at different loudness levels by different individuals and that a sound perceived as the same loudness may be acceptable to one individual and not to another. They therefore attempted to construct individual psychophysical functions that would take into account individual differences in loudness growth and in "loudness acceptability."…”

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Psychoacoustic Measures of Tinnitus

2000

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This report reviews research from the 1930s to the present that has extended our understanding by investigating the characteristics of tinnitus that can be studied using psychoacoustic techniques. Studies of tinnitus masking and residual inhibition began in the 1970s, leading to the therapeutic use of tinnitus masking and a consequent increase in research devoted to tinnitus measurement. In 1981, the CIBA Foundation symposium on tinnitus advocated general adoption of four tinnitus measures: (1) pitch, (2) loudness, (3) maskability, and (4) residual inhibition. Since then, psychoacoustic research into all four topics has proliferated, yielding many valuable insights and controversies concerning the details of measurement techniques. A consensus has emerged that neither the loudness nor other psychoacoustic measures of tinnitus bear a consistent relation to the severity or perceived loudness of tinnitus. Nevertheless, quantification is needed in clinical trials of proposed treatments and in a variety of other types of tinnitus research. Standardization of techniques for specifying the acoustic parameters of tinnitus thus continues to be an important research goal. Abbreviations: ABLB = alternating binaural loudness balance, DL = difference limen, FCDS = forced-choice double staircase, MML = minimum masking level, PLU = personal loudness unit, Rl = residual inhibition

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“…Tinnitus can be quantified in several ways, but the relationship that these measurements have on the design and fitting of tinnitus maskers is unclear. The frequency and level of a tone can be adjusted so that it is similar to the most prominent pitch of the tinnitus (Tyler and Conrad-Armes, 1983b;Penner, 1984;Burns, 1984) and to its loudness (Goodwin and Johnson, 1980; Tyler and Conrad-Armes, 1983a; Hinch-cliffe and Chambers, 1983;Penner, 1984). We have already noted that the pitch-match frequency may not necessarily be the frequency region where the lowest SPL masker is located.…”

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