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Can personalized listening training reduce tinnitus in adults?
Effects of individualized frequency discrimination training compared with fixed frequency discrimination training and a wait-list control on frequency discrimination and tinnitus severity in adults with chronic tinnitus: a three-arm randomized controlled trial
- Sponsor
- National Research Foundation of Korea (Academic or other)
- Enrolment
- 102 planned
- Conditions
- Chronic subjective tinnitus
- Interventions
- Following confirmation of eligibility and completion of the baseline (pre-intervention) assessment, participants will be randomly allocated in a 1
- Ages
- adults, older adults
- Registry
- ISRCTN68329800
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Background and study aims Tinnitus is the perception of sound when there is no external sound source. When it lasts for a long time, it can affect sleep, concentration, emotional wellbeing, and daily life. One possible treatment approach is frequency discrimination training, a listening exercise in which people repeatedly practice identifying which of several sounds has a different pitch. Previous studies suggest that this type of training may improve pitch discrimination and reduce the effects of tinnitus. However, it is not clear whether the benefit depends on improving each person’s ability to distinguish between pitches, partly because previous studies have generally used similar training settings for all participants. This study compares three groups: training with difficulty tailored to each participant’s pitch discrimination ability, training using fixed pitch differences, and a waiting-list group receiving no training during the study period. The study will examine which approach produces the greatest improvements in pitch discrimination and tinnitus-related difficulties,…
Primary outcomes
- Frequency discrimination threshold (JND; expressed in Hz and as a percentage of the reference frequency)
- Tinnitus-related handicap
- Tinnitus-related functional impact
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