The efficacy of hearing aids for emotional and auditory tinnitus issues. 2016

Jamile Cabral, and Rita Tonocchi, and Ângela Ribas, and Gleide Almeida, and Marine Rosa, and Giselle Massi, and Ana Paula Berberian
Programa de Pós-Graduação em Distúrbios da Comunicação, Universidade Tuiuti do Paraná, Curitiba, PR, Brazil.

BACKGROUND The use of hearing aids has been one of the strategies to reduce tinnitus perception and improve sufferers' quality of life when this symptom is associated to hearing impairment. OBJECTIVE To assess the remission of emotional and auditory tinnitus impacts on users of hearing aids. METHODS It is an experimental, descriptive study carried out with 17 users of unilateral or bilateral hearing aids, reporting tinnitus, submitted to otorhinolaryngological screening, tonal audiometry, logoaudiometry and acoustic imittance testing, who also answered the Iowa Tinnitus Activities Questionnaire, as well as the Iowa Tinnitus Handicap Questionnaire. RESULTS There was significant difference in tinnitus data scoring before the use of hearing aids and after fitting the hearing aids. CONCLUSIONS Analysis of the results evidences that the use of hearing aids improves tinnitus patients' quality of life, mainly regarding their emotional and auditory aspects.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D011788 Quality of Life A generic concept reflecting concern with the modification and enhancement of life attributes, e.g., physical, political, moral, social environment as well as health and disease. HRQOL,Health-Related Quality Of Life,Life Quality,Health Related Quality Of Life
D006309 Hearing The ability or act of sensing and transducing ACOUSTIC STIMULATION to the CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM. It is also called audition. Audition
D006310 Hearing Aids Wearable sound-amplifying devices that are intended to compensate for impaired hearing. These generic devices include air-conduction hearing aids and bone-conduction hearing aids. (UMDNS, 1999) Ear Molds, Hearing Aid,Aid, Hearing,Aids, Hearing,Hearing Aid
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D014012 Tinnitus A nonspecific symptom of hearing disorder characterized by the sensation of buzzing, ringing, clicking, pulsations, and other noises in the ear. Objective tinnitus refers to noises generated from within the ear or adjacent structures that can be heard by other individuals. The term subjective tinnitus is used when the sound is audible only to the affected individual. Tinnitus may occur as a manifestation of COCHLEAR DISEASES; VESTIBULOCOCHLEAR NERVE DISEASES; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; and other conditions. Pulsatile Tinnitus,Ringing-Buzzing-Tinnitus,Spontaneous Oto-Acoustic Emission Tinnitus,Tensor Palatini Induced Tinnitus,Tensor Tympani Induced Tinnitus,Tinnitus of Vascular Origin,Tinnitus, Clicking,Tinnitus, Leudet,Tinnitus, Leudet's,Tinnitus, Noise Induced,Tinnitus, Objective,Tinnitus, Spontaneous Oto-Acoustic Emission,Tinnitus, Subjective,Tinnitus, Tensor Palatini Induced,Tinnitus, Tensor Tympani Induced,Vascular Origin Tinnitus,Clicking Tinnitus,Induced Tinnitus, Noise,Leudet Tinnitus,Leudet's Tinnitus,Noise Induced Tinnitus,Objective Tinnitus,Ringing Buzzing Tinnitus,Spontaneous Oto Acoustic Emission Tinnitus,Subjective Tinnitus,Tinnitus, Leudets,Tinnitus, Pulsatile,Tinnitus, Spontaneous Oto Acoustic Emission,Tinnitus, Vascular Origin
D034381 Hearing Loss A general term for the complete or partial loss of the ability to hear from one or both ears. Deafness, Transitory,Hearing Impairment,Hearing Loss, Transitory,Hypoacusis,Transitory Hearing Loss,Deafnesses, Transitory,Hypoacuses,Loss, Hearing,Loss, Transitory Hearing,Transitory Deafness,Transitory Deafnesses,Transitory Hearing Losses

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