ArticleFrontiers in neuroscience2020
Sex Differences in the Response to Different Tinnitus Treatment.
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- Effectiveness of Telerehabilitation Interventions for Self-Management of Tinnitus: Update of a Systematic Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2026Pooled it
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) treatment in the medical setting: a systematic review.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2024Pooled it
- Effectiveness of Telerehabilitation Interventions for Self-management of Tinnitus: Systematic Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2023Pooled it
- Low Evidence for Tinnitus Risk Factors: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology : JARO · 2023Pooled it
- Sex Does Matter! The Influence of Sex on Outcomes of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS).Cells · 2026Review
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- Does the Patient's Sex Have an Impact on Beneficial Effects ofJournal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
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- Exploring the interaction between emotional states and tinnitus severity before and after a sound therapy intervention.Journal of otology · 2025Article
- Process mining in mHealth data analysis.NPJ digital medicine · 2024Review
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- Should Tinnitus Patients with Subclinical Hearing Impairment Be Offered Hearing Aids? A Comparison of Tinnitus Mitigation Following 3 Months Hearing Aid Use in Individuals with and without Clinical Hearing Impairment.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
- Anodal Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation over the Right Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex Boosts Decision Making and Functional Impulsivity in Female Sports Referees.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Dual-site transcranial direct current stimulation to treat tinnitus: a randomized controlled trial.Brain : a journal of neurology · 2022Article
- Prediction of Tinnitus Perception Based on Daily Life MHealth Data Using Country Origin and Season.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Article
- Long-term effects of a single psycho-educational session in chronic tinnitus patients.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 · 2022Article
- The frequency of dyslipidemia in patients with idiopathic tinnitus.Northern clinics of Istanbul · 2022Article
- Predicting the gender of individuals with tinnitus based on daily life data of the TrackYourTinnitus mHealth platform.Scientific reports · 2021Article
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Abstract
introductionTinnitus is a complex symptom requiring a thorough multidisciplinary assessment to construct an individual's tinnitus profile. The Antwerp University Hospital hosts a tertiary tinnitus clinic providing intensive, multidisciplinary tinnitus care in the form of combinational psychological treatment with either Tinnitus Retraining Therapy (TRT)/Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) or TRT/eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy (EMDR), high-definition transcranial direct current stimulation (HD-tDCS), and physical therapy treatment (in cases of somatic influence of the neck or the temporomandibular area). Several factors may contribute to therapy effect of which the role of gender has recently gained more interest. As such, the current manuscript explores gender differences in the outcome of different tinnitus treatments.
methodsData on treatment outcome of four distinct tinnitus treatments (1. HD-tDCS; 2. orofacial physical therapy; 3. combination TRT + CBT; and 4. combination TRT + EMDR) were pooled and compared. Treatment outcome was assessed via the Tinnitus Functional Index (TFI). Participants completed the TFI at baseline, immediately after treatment and after 9 weeks (±3 weeks) follow-up. To explore the effect of gender on different treatment outcomes, a linear mixed model was designed including
resultsTFI scores improved significantly over time regardless of therapy group (
conclusionOur data suggest that male and female tinnitus patients seem to react differently to different therapy options. We strongly encourage further prospective studies to discern the relevance of gender in therapy outcome.
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