Tinnitus Treatment by Structured Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Phase 4
Completed
- Conditions
- Tinnitus
- Registration Number
- NCT00719940
- Lead Sponsor
- University Hospital Tuebingen
- Brief Summary
Test of hypothesis that in contrast to non-treatment tinnitus specific cognitive behavioral therapy intervention procedures that are manualized and structured within the disease management program TCP are effective.
- Detailed Description
Intervention:
Individual application of structured and tinnitus specific cognitive behavioral therapy intervention procedures in the clinical setting of the structured therapy program "tinnitus care program (TCP)"
Duration of intervention per patient: 1-15 treatment sessions plus self treatment up to 16 weeks
Control intervention: Waiting group (16 weeks)
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 286
Inclusion Criteria
- Persistent and stable tinnitus of more than 11 weeks
- Gap between audiometric tinnitus matching and subjective tinnitus loudness rating scale
Key
Exclusion Criteria
- Psychiatric or neurological comorbidity
- Tinnitus as concomitant symptom of an otherwise treatable disease
- Drug treatment for tinnitus 24 hrs. prior or during therapy
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- PARALLEL
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Validated tinnitus questionaire (TF Goebel and Hiller 1992); validated tinnitus change rating scale (TC, Zenner and de Maddalena 2005) Last session
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Tinnitus loudness (TL), validated 6-point numeric verbal rating scale; tinnitus annoyance (TA), validated 8-point numeric verbal rating scale last therapy session
Trial Locations
- Locations (3)
Tinnitus Care Center
🇩🇪Frankfurt, Germany
Dept. ORL, University of Tuebingen
🇩🇪Tuebingen, Germany
Private Practice
🇩🇪Tuebingen, Germany
Tinnitus Care Center🇩🇪Frankfurt, Germany