The Additive Effect of Co-Occurring Anxiety and Depression on Health Status, Quality of Life and Coping Strategies in Help-Seeking Tinnitus Sufferers

Bartels, H.; Middel, Berry; Laan, van der Bernard; Staal, Michiel J.; Albers, F. W. J.

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“…Other instruments used were Visual Analogue Scale (n = 1), Tinnitus reaction questionnaire (n = 1), and Subjective Tinnitus Severity Scale (n = 1). One study used both THI and Tinnitus reaction questionnaire to assess tinnitus 13 .…”

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“…Other survey instruments used were Depressive Tendency Questionnaire (DTQ), Illness Attitude Scale, Obsessive Beliefs Questionnaire-44 (OBQ-44), International Statistical Classification of Diseases 9 (ICD-9), Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale, and Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview [13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23] .…”

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“…Bartels et al evaluated 256 patients suffering from tinnitus and divided them into 4 groups; no-symptoms, anxietyonly, depression-only, and anxiety and depression 13 . A statistically higher association between tinnitus and psychiatric comorbidities were observed in anxiety and depression group (39.2%) compared to anxiety-only (10.2%) and depression-only (9.8%) groups.…”

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Tinnitus Patients Suffering from Anxiety and Depression: A Review

Ziai¹,

Moshtaghi²,

Mahboubi³

et al. 2017

The International Tinnitus Journal

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Objectives: To review literature on the link between depression and anxiety in patients suffering from tinnitus. Method: A systematic review of published English-language literature was performed using PubMed, Ovid, and Cochrane databases. Results: Of the 56 eligible abstracts 15 were chosen to be included in the review. All articles showed an association of depression and anxiety in tinnitus patients. Conclusions: Because of the strong association between tinnitus, depression, and anxiety-all tinnitus patients should be screened for psychiatric disorders. Treatment for these complex conditions should involve a multidisciplinary team with cognitive behavioral therapy and possible pharmacological therapy.

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Tinnitus Patients Suffering from Anxiety and Depression: A Review

Ziai¹,

Moshtaghi²,

Mahboubi³

et al. 2017

The International Tinnitus Journal

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“…The incidence of depression in our sample was low (8.3%), in agreement with studies led by Newman et al, in which we noticed a weak correlation between tinnitus and depression 6 . However, other studies have established a clear correlation between tinnitus and depression 7,20 . One explanation for such fact may reside in the mean THI of our sample (45.5 -moderate score).…”

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Análise da correlação entre limiares auditivos, questionários validados e medidas psicoacústicas em pacientes com zumbido

Figueiredo¹,

Rates²,

Azevedo³

et al. 2010

Braz. j. otorhinolaryngol. (Impr.)

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One of the most criticized points in tinnitus clinical studies arise from the lack of consensus about measurement methods. Aim:To evaluate the correlation between audiometric thresholds, pitch matching (PM), minimum masking level (MML), Tinnitus Handicap Inventory (THI) and the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) in tinnitus patients. Study design:Prospective, cross-sectional. Materials and methods:Subjects were submitted to tonal audiometry, PM and MML for tinnitus. They also filled out the THI and BDI. Data was statistically compared for correlation purposes between audiometric thresholds, psycho-acoustic measures and questionnaires.Results: There was no statistically significant correlation between THI and MML, both in patients with BDI scores under and over 14 points. There was no statistically significant correlation between the worst hearing frequency and PM, as well as between the cut-off frequency and the PM in patients with descending hearing curves in their audiograms. Conclusions:There is no statistically significant correlation between psycho-acoustic measures (PM and MML), audiometric thresholds, THI and BDI. Tinnitus is a very complex symptom and isolated measures by psycho-acoustic methods; tinnitus and depression questionnaires are not satisfactory. Braz J Otorhinolaryngol. 2010;76(4):522-6. ORIGINAL ARTICLE BJORL

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“…Approximately, one percent of the population is very severely affected (Axelsson and Ringdahl 1989). For such patients, daily activities impairment, attention deficit (Delb et al 2008), sleep (Cronlein et al 2007) and mood disorders induced by tinnitus perception result in major negative impact on quality of life (Bartels et al 2008) and important economical and social burden (Vio and Holme 2005). Despite of its high incidence, pathophysiology of ST remains incompletely understood (Bauer 2004) and causally oriented treatment is still lacking even though various kinds of pharmacological agents have been proposed to treat ST with poor evidence-based validation (Dobie 1999).…”

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Auditory and visual 3D virtual reality therapy for chronic subjective tinnitus: theoretical framework

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It is estimated that *10% of the adult population in developed countries is affected by subjective tinnitus. Physiopathology of subjective tinnitus remains incompletely explained. Nevertheless, subjective tinnitus is thought to result from hyperactivity and neuroplastic reorganization of cortical and subcortical networks following acoustic deafferentation induced by cochlear or auditory nerve damage. Involvement of both auditory and non-auditory central nervous pathways explains the conscious perception of tinnitus and also the potentially incapacitating discomfort experienced by some patients (sound hypersensitivity, sleep disorders, attention deficit, anxiety or depression). These clinical patterns are similar to those observed in chronic pain following amputation where conditioning techniques using virtual reality have been shown both to be theoretically interesting and effectively useful. This analogy led us to develop an innovative setup with dedicated auditory and visual 3D virtual reality environments in which unilateral subjective tinnitus sufferers are given the possibility to voluntarily manipulate an auditory and visual image of their tinnitus (tinnitus avatar).By doing so, the patients will be able to transfer their subjective auditory perception to the tinnitus avatar and to gain agency on this multimodal virtual percept they hear, see and spatially control. Repeated sessions of such virtual reality immersions are then supposed to contribute to tinnitus treatment by promoting cerebral plasticity. This paper describes the theoretical framework and setup adjustments required by this very first attempt to adapt virtual reality techniques to subjective tinnitus treatment. Therapeutic usefulness will be validated by a further controlled clinical trial.

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The Additive Effect of Co-Occurring Anxiety and Depression on Health Status, Quality of Life and Coping Strategies in Help-Seeking Tinnitus Sufferers

Abstract: Our results demonstrate the additive effect of both anxiety and depression in impairing general health-related and tinnitus-specific quality of life and application of coping strategies, and reiterate the need for investigating both symptoms in the clinical evaluation of tinnitus patients.

Cited by 96 publications

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Tinnitus Patients Suffering from Anxiety and Depression: A Review

Tinnitus Patients Suffering from Anxiety and Depression: A Review

Análise da correlação entre limiares auditivos, questionários validados e medidas psicoacústicas em pacientes com zumbido

Auditory and visual 3D virtual reality therapy for chronic subjective tinnitus: theoretical framework

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