Participants with hearing loss and Tinnitus will wear hearing aids with amplification-only or with an added sound, and have their tinnitus level evaluated before and after intervention.
2 groups of adults with hearing loss and chronic bothersome tinnitus and no experience with amplification will participate in a cross over intervention study with 2 conditions of 4 weeks each: 1. fit with hearing aid (HA) amplification-only, and 2. fit with HA amplification with an added sound, returning to their original unaided condition after undergoing the intervention phase.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
38
Hearing aid will be fit to prescribed participant hearing loss.
Hearing aid will be fit to prescribed participant hearing loss and an added sound will be activated.
The State University of New York at Buffalo
Buffalo, New York, United States
Tinnitus Functional Index Evaluation (TFI)
Tinnitus Functional Index (TFI) questionnaire results, ranging from 0 to 100, with higher numbers indicating more severe (worse) Tinnitus interference in the person's quality of life.
Time frame: TFI collected before intervention to serve as a baseline. TFI change from baseline will be assessed after each study condition, which will last 4 weeks/each.
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