ArticleThe Psychiatric quarterly2020
Positive Correlation between Tinnitus Severity and Poor Sleep Quality Prior to Tinnitus Onset: a Retrospective Study.
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- Prevalence of sleep impairment in patients with tinnitus: a systematic review and single-arm meta-analysis.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 · 2022Pooled it
- Exploring a Possible Link Between Tinnitus and the Risk of Obstructive Sleep Apnea-A National Population-Based Cohort Study Using Propensity Score Matching Analysis.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- Associations between cochlear electrophysiology, emotional health, and sleep quality in adults with tinnitus: a comprehensive analysis.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- A U-shaped relationship between sleep duration and tinnitus incidence: analysis of 13,871 participants from NHANES.Brazilian journal of medical and biological research = Revista brasileira de pesquisas medicas e biologica · 2025Article
- Graph-Based Electroencephalography Analysis in Tinnitus Therapy.Biomedicines · 2024Article
- Exploring the interplay of depression, sleep quality, and hearing in tinnitus-related handicap: insights from polysomnography and pure-tone audiometry.BMC psychiatry · 2024Article
- The role of stimuli of life events and sleep quality in the incidence of acute low-tone sensorineural hearing loss.Frontiers in neurology · 2024Article
- Low Sleep Satisfaction Is Related to High Disease Burden in Tinnitus.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Daily Contributors of Tinnitus Loudness and Distress: An Ecological Momentary Assessment Study.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Article
- [Key factors of the severity of chronic subjective tinnitus: a complex network analysis].Lin chuang er bi yan hou tou jing wai ke za zhi = Journal of clinical otorhinolaryngology head and neck surgery · 2021Article
- Personality and Sleep Evaluation of Patients with Tinnitus in Japan.The Psychiatric quarterly · 2021Article
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Abstract
The objective of this study was to investigate the correlation of tinnitus severity and sleep quality prior to tinnitus onset in a Chinese population.We recruited patients with primary tinnitus from a tertiary teaching hospital in southwest China, retrospectively. The Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) and the Mandarin version of the Tinnitus Handicap Inventory (THI-M) were employed to assess tinnitus severity and sleep quality of past, respectively. A battery of hearing tests was also administered to subjects, including TEOAE, pure tone audiometry, and tympanometry, for hearing evaluation.We enrolled 190 patients and nine were excluded. Subjects were divided into two groups: group A (PSQI <7) and group B (PSQI ≥7). The mean duration of tinnitus in both groups was above 6 months. There was a significant difference between THI-M global scores of group A and group B (P < 0.001). The difference in tinnitus severity ranks between the two groups was also significant (P = 0.006). The proportion of severe tinnitus levels in group B was higher than that of group A. Spearman's correlation analysis did not show correlation between the scores of THI-M and that of the PSQI in group A (P = 0.077); in verse, a positive correlation between THI-M and PSQI scores was found in group B (P < 0.001).The tinnitus severity is positively correlated with sleep quality before tinnitus onset, suggesting that the sleep quality of the past may have an impact on tinnitus occurrence.
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