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.
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)
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
286
1-15 individual sessions of 50-60 min. to apply 1-15 manualized tinnitus specific cognitive behavioral therapy interventions structured by the tinnitus care disease management program
No intervention
Tinnitus Care Center
Aschaffenburg, Germany
Tinnitus Care Center
Frankfurt, Germany
Dept. ORL, University of Tuebingen
Tübingen, Germany
Private Practice
Tübingen, Germany
Validated tinnitus questionaire (TF Goebel and Hiller 1992); validated tinnitus change rating scale (TC, Zenner and de Maddalena 2005)
Time frame: Last session
Tinnitus loudness (TL), validated 6-point numeric verbal rating scale; tinnitus annoyance (TA), validated 8-point numeric verbal rating scale
Time frame: last therapy session
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