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Effect of Age, Gender and Hearing Loss on the Degree of Discomfort Due to Tinnitus
INTRODUCTION: Tinnitus is one of the complex symptoms of hearing described as a phantom auditory sensation without any external stimulation. Due to the subjective nature of tinnitus, perception and discomfort of tinnitus vary among the patients. The main aim of this study is to investigate the effec...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6010657/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29942427 http://dx.doi.org/10.29252/NIRP.BCN.8.6.435 |
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author | Noroozian, Maryam Jafari, Zahra Shahmiri, Elaheh Omidvar, Shaghayegh Zendehbad, Azadeh Amini, Naser Radmehr, Mahsa Bagherian, Masoud Yoonessi, Ali |
author_facet | Noroozian, Maryam Jafari, Zahra Shahmiri, Elaheh Omidvar, Shaghayegh Zendehbad, Azadeh Amini, Naser Radmehr, Mahsa Bagherian, Masoud Yoonessi, Ali |
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description | INTRODUCTION: Tinnitus is one of the complex symptoms of hearing described as a phantom auditory sensation without any external stimulation. Due to the subjective nature of tinnitus, perception and discomfort of tinnitus vary among the patients. The main aim of this study is to investigate the effects of gender, age and the degree of hearing loss on discomfort due to tinnitus. METHODS: Eighteen patients with tinnitus, aged 21–72 years, (9 males and 9 females) were recruited. Tinnitus discomfort was investigated by Tinnitus Handicap Inventory (THI) questionnaire. Psychoacoustic assessments of tinnitus and auditory threshold assessments were evaluated using a 2-channel clinical audiometer. RESULTS: The results showed no significant correlation between THI scores with loudness matching (P=0.187), mean of auditory threshold (P=0.304), gender (P=0.93) and age (P=0.200). Also, no significant correlation was found between maximal level of hearing loss and pitch matching (P=0.208). CONCLUSION: The study findings suggests that tinnitus is not correlated with age, gender and hearing loss. Overall, tinnitus is a complicated clinical condition which its real impact and degree of discomfort are unclear. More investigation is needed to clarify the factors involving in tinnitus annoyance. |
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spelling | pubmed-60106572018-06-25 Effect of Age, Gender and Hearing Loss on the Degree of Discomfort Due to Tinnitus Noroozian, Maryam Jafari, Zahra Shahmiri, Elaheh Omidvar, Shaghayegh Zendehbad, Azadeh Amini, Naser Radmehr, Mahsa Bagherian, Masoud Yoonessi, Ali Basic Clin Neurosci Research Paper INTRODUCTION: Tinnitus is one of the complex symptoms of hearing described as a phantom auditory sensation without any external stimulation. Due to the subjective nature of tinnitus, perception and discomfort of tinnitus vary among the patients. The main aim of this study is to investigate the effects of gender, age and the degree of hearing loss on discomfort due to tinnitus. METHODS: Eighteen patients with tinnitus, aged 21–72 years, (9 males and 9 females) were recruited. Tinnitus discomfort was investigated by Tinnitus Handicap Inventory (THI) questionnaire. Psychoacoustic assessments of tinnitus and auditory threshold assessments were evaluated using a 2-channel clinical audiometer. RESULTS: The results showed no significant correlation between THI scores with loudness matching (P=0.187), mean of auditory threshold (P=0.304), gender (P=0.93) and age (P=0.200). Also, no significant correlation was found between maximal level of hearing loss and pitch matching (P=0.208). CONCLUSION: The study findings suggests that tinnitus is not correlated with age, gender and hearing loss. Overall, tinnitus is a complicated clinical condition which its real impact and degree of discomfort are unclear. More investigation is needed to clarify the factors involving in tinnitus annoyance. Iranian Neuroscience Society 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC6010657/ /pubmed/29942427 http://dx.doi.org/10.29252/NIRP.BCN.8.6.435 Text en Copyright© 2017 Iranian Neuroscience Society http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Paper Noroozian, Maryam Jafari, Zahra Shahmiri, Elaheh Omidvar, Shaghayegh Zendehbad, Azadeh Amini, Naser Radmehr, Mahsa Bagherian, Masoud Yoonessi, Ali Effect of Age, Gender and Hearing Loss on the Degree of Discomfort Due to Tinnitus |
title | Effect of Age, Gender and Hearing Loss on the Degree of Discomfort Due to Tinnitus |
title_full | Effect of Age, Gender and Hearing Loss on the Degree of Discomfort Due to Tinnitus |
title_fullStr | Effect of Age, Gender and Hearing Loss on the Degree of Discomfort Due to Tinnitus |
title_full_unstemmed | Effect of Age, Gender and Hearing Loss on the Degree of Discomfort Due to Tinnitus |
title_short | Effect of Age, Gender and Hearing Loss on the Degree of Discomfort Due to Tinnitus |
title_sort | effect of age, gender and hearing loss on the degree of discomfort due to tinnitus |
topic | Research Paper |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6010657/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29942427 http://dx.doi.org/10.29252/NIRP.BCN.8.6.435 |
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