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Trial reportPloS one2014

Agreement and reliability of tinnitus loudness matching and pitch likeness rating.

Derek J Hoare, Mark Edmondson-Jones, Phillip E Gander, Deborah A Hall

Registry-linked trialAbstract readClinical TrialMulticenter Study
In one paragraph

Trial report in PloS one, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT01541969 (Systematic Evaluation of the Acoustic CR ® Neuromodulation Treatment for Tinnitus), which is not on this map. Cited by 20 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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NCT01541969 phase2 / phase3completednot on this map

Systematic Evaluation of the Acoustic CR ® Neuromodulation Treatment for Tinnitus

TypeinterventionalSponsorNottingham University Hospitals NHS TrustRan2012 to 2014Enrolled100ConditionsTinnitusArmsCR Neuromodulation, Tinnitus masking
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

20 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. Current understanding of subjective tinnitus in adults.European archives of oto-rhino-laryngology : official journal of the European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS) : affiliated with the German Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology - Head and Neck Surgery · 2024
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  5. A cross-sectional study on predictors of patients' tinnitus severity.World journal of otorhinolaryngology - head and neck surgery · 2024
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  6. Tinnitus in Children.Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology : JARO · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Derek J HoareNational Institute for Health Research, Nottingham Hearing Biomedical Research Unit, Nottingham, United Kingdom; Otology and Hearing Group, Division of Clinical Neuroscience, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom.
Mark Edmondson-JonesNational Institute for Health Research, Nottingham Hearing Biomedical Research Unit, Nottingham, United Kingdom; Otology and Hearing Group, Division of Clinical Neuroscience, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom.
Phillip E GanderNational Institute for Health Research, Nottingham Hearing Biomedical Research Unit, Nottingham, United Kingdom; Department of Neurosurgery, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America.
Deborah A HallNational Institute for Health Research, Nottingham Hearing Biomedical Research Unit, Nottingham, United Kingdom; Otology and Hearing Group, Division of Clinical Neuroscience, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The ability to reproducibly match tinnitus loudness and pitch is important to research and clinical management. Here we examine agreement and reliability of tinnitus loudness matching and pitch likeness ratings when using a computer-based method to measure the tinnitus spectrum and estimate a dominant tinnitus pitch, using tonal or narrowband sounds. Group level data indicated a significant effect of time between test session 1 and 2 for loudness matching, likely procedural or perceptual learning, which needs to be accounted in study design. Pitch likeness rating across multiple frequencies appeared inherently more variable and with no systematic effect of time. Dominant pitch estimates reached a level of clinical acceptability when sessions were spaced two weeks apart. However when dominant tinnitus pitch assessments were separated by three months, acceptable agreement was achieved only for group mean data, not for individual estimates. This has implications for prescription of some sound-based interventions that rely on accurate measures of individual dominant tinnitus pitch.

Indexed as

Pitch PerceptionAdultAgedFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedTinnitus

Identifiers

PMID25478690
PMCPMC4257689

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