Tinnitus
Conditions
Keywords
tinnitus, cognitive behavioral therapy, CBT
Brief summary
Test of hypothesis that in contrast to non-treatment tinnitus specific cognitive behavioral therapy intervention procedures that are manualized and structured within the disease management program TCP are effective.
Detailed description
Intervention: Individual application of structured and tinnitus specific cognitive behavioral therapy intervention procedures in the clinical setting of the structured therapy program tinnitus care program (TCP) Duration of intervention per patient: 1-15 treatment sessions plus self treatment up to 16 weeks Control intervention: Waiting group (16 weeks)
Interventions
BEHAVIORALCognitive behavioral therapy
1-15 individual sessions of 50-60 min. to apply 1-15 manualized tinnitus specific cognitive behavioral therapy interventions structured by the tinnitus care disease management program
OTHERWaiting group
No intervention
Sponsors
University Hospital Tuebingen
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
14 Years to 90 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
Key Inclusion Criteria: * Persistent and stable tinnitus of more than 11 weeks * Gap between audiometric tinnitus matching and subjective tinnitus loudness rating scale Key
Exclusion criteria
* Psychiatric or neurological comorbidity * Tinnitus as concomitant symptom of an otherwise treatable disease * Drug treatment for tinnitus 24 hrs. prior or during therapy
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Validated tinnitus questionaire (TF Goebel and Hiller 1992); validated tinnitus change rating scale (TC, Zenner and de Maddalena 2005) | Last session |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Tinnitus loudness (TL), validated 6-point numeric verbal rating scale; tinnitus annoyance (TA), validated 8-point numeric verbal rating scale | last therapy session |
Countries
Germany
Outcome results
None listed