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- Title
Long-Term Improvement in Tinnitus after Modified Tinnitus Retraining Therapy Enhanced by a Variety of Psychological Approaches.
- Authors
Seydel, Claudia; Haupt, Heidemarie; Szczepek, Agnieszka J.; Klapp, Burghard F.; Mazurek, Birgit
- Abstract
This work evaluates an enhanced tinnitus retraining therapy (TRT) for patients with chronic tinnitus based on different group therapeutic interventions in a day hospital setting. Therapy for chronic tinnitus is intended to improve the way patients cope with tinnitus by learning how to reduce tinnitus-induced impairments. Short-term and long-term changes in stress variables and tinnitus-related distress were investigated using 3 psychometric instruments. Patients received 7 consecutive days of a multidisciplinary therapy at the Charité University Hospital in Berlin. The data were assessed before and after therapy, either immediately or after 3, 6 or 12 months. As a control, we used scores of tinnitus patients from the waiting list, and compared these to the scores of the therapy group 3 months after the end of treatment. The main factors of the modified TRT were Jacobson’s progressive muscle relaxation, physiotherapy, education via lectures and training of selective attention, as well as changes of appraisal, mental attitude and behavior towards tinnitus. The therapy resulted in a significant reduction in both short-term and long-term tinnitus-related distress and psychometric stress variables, with the latter being more reduced in patients with higher initial scores. Moreover, our study revealed differences in psychometric parameters concerning duration of tinnitus, age and gender, which may explain the different outcomes of therapy. The outpatient setting enables the patients to test, practice and transfer strategies into their everyday life. Copyright © 2009 S. Karger AG, Basel
- Subjects
TINNITUS; COMBINED modality therapy; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMETRICS
- Publication
Audiology & Neurotology, 2010, Vol 15, Issue 2, p69
- ISSN
1420-3030
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1159/000231632