Self-help interventions chosen by subjects with chronic tinnitus - a retrospective study of clinical patients.

Autor:	Kutyba J; World Hearing Center, Institute of Physiology and Pathology of Hearing, Warsaw, Poland., Jedrzejczak WW; World Hearing Center, Institute of Physiology and Pathology of Hearing, Warsaw, Poland., Gos E; World Hearing Center, Institute of Physiology and Pathology of Hearing, Warsaw, Poland., Bieńkowska K; World Hearing Center, Institute of Physiology and Pathology of Hearing, Warsaw, Poland., Raj-Koziak D; World Hearing Center, Institute of Physiology and Pathology of Hearing, Warsaw, Poland., Skarżyński PH; World Hearing Center, Institute of Physiology and Pathology of Hearing, Warsaw, Poland.; Heart Failure and Cardiac Rehabilitation Department, 2nd Faculty of Medicine, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.; Institute of Sensory Organs, Warsaw, Poland.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	International journal of audiology [Int J Audiol] 2022 Aug; Vol. 61 (8), pp. 686-691. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 Aug 19.
DOI:	10.1080/14992027.2021.1964040
Abstrakt:	Objective: Self-help (without specialist support) can play an important role in tinnitus therapy. The purpose of this study was to investigate what fraction of subjects with tinnitus use self-help, what techniques are most commonly used to reduce tinnitus severity, and what distinguishes patients that use self-help from others. Design: retrospective, observational study. Study Sample: Adult patients admitted to our hospital clinic (460 participants) aged 19-83 years and reporting chronic tinnitus. The survey concerned therapy attempts prior to the clinic visit as well as self-help techniques chosen freely by the patient to reduce tinnitus severity. Results: Data showed that 40.9% of the respondents chose some action themselves to reduce their tinnitus severity. Among the reported self-help techniques, acoustic stimulation was the most popular. In addition, patients chose distraction attention, relaxation, meditation, yoga, and physical activity. The likelihood of undertaking self-help increases with better education and higher tinnitus severity. Conclusions: Knowledge about patients' preferences of forms of self-help may help the health practitioner suggest a more suitable form of therapy. Due to the great interest in using sound therapy in tinnitus, it would be worthwhile looking at new forms of this therapy, for example increasingly popular mobile applications.
Databáze:	MEDLINE
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