Self-help interventions chosen by subjects with chronic tinnitus – a retrospective study of clinical patients
| Autor: | Elżbieta Gos, Danuta Raj-Koziak, Katarzyna Bieńkowska, Piotr H. Skarzynski, Justyna Kutyba, W. Wiktor Jedrzejczak |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
| Předmět: |
Adult
Linguistics and Language Coping (psychology) medicine.medical_specialty business.industry Psychological intervention Chronic tinnitus food and beverages Retrospective cohort study Audiology Language and Linguistics Self-help Tinnitus Speech and Hearing Sound Acoustic Stimulation Surveys and Questionnaires otorhinolaryngologic diseases medicine Humans Sound therapy medicine.symptom business Retrospective Studies |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Audiology. 61:686-691 |
| ISSN: | 1708-8186 1499-2027 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/14992027.2021.1964040 |
| Popis: | 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.retrospective, observational study.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.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.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: | OpenAIRE |
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