Effect of Musical Auditory Training on Subjects With Tinnitus Disorder

Not Applicable

Recruiting

• Conditions: Tinnitus
• Interventions: Behavioral: Placebo; Behavioral: Treinamento Auditivo Musical

• Registration Number: NCT06371287
• Lead Sponsor: Universidade Federal de Santa Maria

Brief Summary

Among the theories of tinnitus generation, there is that of central neuroplastic changes, which reports the association between changes and reorganization that occur in central auditory pathways and impacts on associated areas due to the altered neural signal. Auditory training modifies these altered pathways through auditory exercises, which provoke positive neuroplasticity. Musical auditory training is a proposal to stimulate auditory, cognitive and metalinguistic skills with activities focused on musicality. Therefore, the objective of this study is to verify the effect of musical auditory training (MAT) on the neuroplasticity of the auditory system and the perception of tinnitus disorder in young adults.

Detailed Description

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Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2023-02-20
• Study First Submitted: 2024-02-27
• Status Verified: 2024-04
• Study First Submitted QC: 2024-04-15
• Study First Posted: 2024-04-17
• Last Update Submitted: 2024-04-22
• Last Update Posted: 2024-04-24
• Primary Completion: 2024-08-10
• Study Completion: 2025-02-10

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: RECRUITING
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 24

Inclusion Criteria

• Individuals of both sexes aged between 18 years and 55 years;
• Complaint of chronic tinnitus (minimum perception of six months) unilateral or bilateral;
• Hearing thresholds within normal limits bilaterally or even mild sensorineural hearing loss in the four-tone average (500, 1000, 2000 and 4000Hz);
• Annoyance score of at least four on the Visual Analogue Scale, considered a moderate symptom discomfort;
• Have normality in the Mini Mental State Examination (cognitive screening).

Exclusion Criteria

• Apparent speech, psychiatric or neurological changes;
• History of head or brain trauma;
• Objective tinnitus (somatosensory and vascular);
• Present symptoms and/or diagnosis of middle ear involvement;
• Having started a new treatment (pharmacological or therapeutic) or having been diagnosed with a disease of any origin in the last month.
• Be carrying out another intervention for tinnitus during the research;
• Use of electronic assistive hearing devices.

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: SEQUENTIAL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Control Group - Placebo	Placebo	Placebo sessions will also be held twice a week for four weeks, totaling eight sessions. To ensure the same conditions for performing musical auditory training, in the placebo treatment, instrumental music will be used concomitantly with the exposure of films without sound, in which patients will be exposed to visual and auditory stimulation during the same time of EG intervention, at least 40 minutes and a maximum of 50 minutes.
Study Group - Musical Auditory Training	Treinamento Auditivo Musical	For musical training, the protocol proposed by Freire, et al. (2009). This protocol was created for elderly users of hearing aids and in this study it will be used as an instrument for intervention in tinnitus, aiming at auditory training through the hierarchization of auditory skills associated with musicality (FREIRE, 2009). Eight sessions will be held over four weeks, two sessions per week. Sessions will last a minimum of 40 minutes and a maximum of 50 minutes. Victory supra-aural headphones will be used, connected to the computer. There will be calibration, with adjustment of the volume of sounds to the most comfortable level for the individual at the beginning of all sessions.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Changes in latency of the long latency auditory evoked potential (LLAEP)	Within a month	Improve the latency in milliseconds of P2 potential

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Universidade Federal de Santa Maria; 🇧🇷 Santa Maria, RS, Brazil