Neuro-Music-Therapy for Patients With Chronic Tinnitus - a Controlled Clinical Trial
- Conditions
- Tinnitus
- Interventions
- Behavioral: Neuro-Music-Therapy according to the Heidelberg ModelBehavioral: Counselling
- Registration Number
- NCT01845155
- Lead Sponsor
- German Center for Music Therapy Research
- Brief Summary
BACKGROUND: Tinnitus is a nonspecific symptom of hearing disorder characterized by the sensation of buzzing, ringing, clicking, pulsations, and other noises in the ear. Despite a variety of treatments, many patients with chronic tinnitus ask for more active ways in coping with their tinnitus. Gold standard treatment in chronic tinnitus is a comprehensive directive counseling explaining the underlying mechanisms leading to the tinnitus percept. Therefore a neuro-music therapeutic treatment based on a bio-psycho-social framework was developed and compared to a counselling-only control group.
INTERVENTION: two standardized protocols for tinnitus therapy were defined ("neuro-music therapy" vs. "counselling")
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 300
- Clinical diagnosis of chronic tinnitus persisting for a minimum of 6 month
- Adults, aged 18 or over
- Patients are able to understand, read and speak German fluently
- Patients are able to give written informed consent
- tinnitus with determinable centre frequency
- Tinnitus related to anatomic lesions of the ear, to retrocochlear lesions or to cochlear implantation
- Tinnitus is concomitant symptom of a known systemic disease (such as Menière's Disease, vestibular schwannoma, endolymphatic hydrops)
- Status following craniocerebral trauma, cervicogenic or stomatognathic tinnitus
- Tinnitus is neither noisiform nor tonal (cricking, clacking, rumbling) or has different sound components or is pulsatile, intermittent or non-persistent
- Severe hearing impairment (greater than 50 decibel hearing loss (dB HL) in the region of the centre tinnitus frequency)
- Severe hyperacusis
- One or two sided deafness
- Clinical diagnosis of severe mental disorder or psychiatric or neurological disease (psychosis, epilepsy, Parkinsons's disease, dementia, alcohol or drug abuse)
- History of severe ischemic disorder (previous stoke, previous heart attack, peripheral arterial occlusion disease)
- Inability to discontinue drugs known to be associated with tinnitus (high-dose aspirin, quinidine, aminoglycosides) or psychotropic medication prior to entry into the study
- Patients are not able to understand, read and speak German fluently
- Patients are not able to give written informed consent
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- PARALLEL
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description Music Therapy Neuro-Music-Therapy according to the Heidelberg Model Neuro-Music-Therapy according to the Heidelberg Model Counselling Counselling Counselling
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Tinnitus Questionnaire (TQ, Goebel and Hiller 1998) Total Score Change From Baseline to End of Treatment average time period was 3 months Tinnitus severity was assessed by the German version of the tinnitus questionnaire (TQ, Goebel and Hiller 1994). The TQ consists of a total of 52 items. The questionnaire records tinnitus related complaints on a global TQ-score. The range of values is between the minimum score of 0 and the maximum score of 84, whereas high values indicate high tinnitus related distress.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Change in Tinnitus Frequency (Pitch), Obtained at Admission (Pre) and After Therapy Intervention (Post) the average time period was 3 months
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Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
German Center for Music Therapy Research
🇩🇪Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany