Kikidis, Dimitrios and Vassou, Evgenia and Markatos, Nikolaos and Schlee, Winfried and Iliadou, Eleftheria (2021) Hearing Aid Fitting in Tinnitus: A Scoping Review of Methodological Aspects and Effect on Tinnitus Distress and Perception. JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MEDICINE, 10 (13): 2896. ISSN 2077-0383
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Current evidence on efficacy of hearing aids (HAs) on tinnitus perception and annoyance is considered insufficient due to the heterogeneity of tinnitus characteristics and of methods used in the relevant clinical studies. This is a scoping review focused on the methodological aspects of clinical studies evaluating the value of HA fitting as part of tinnitus management over the past 10 years. Thirty-four studies were included in the review, showing important heterogeneity in almost all aspects of inclusion criteria, comparators, outcome measures, follow-up time and HA fitting procedures. Although all studies show that HA fitting has a positive impact on tinnitus perception in patients with hearing loss, the methodological heterogeneity does not allow robust conclusions. Future studies taking into account the different nature and goals of each tinnitus therapeutic modality and adapting their methods, endpoints and timelines according to them could lay the groundwork for obtaining high-quality evidence on whether and how HA fitting shall be implemented in tinnitus management strategies.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | THERAPY; MASKING; PITCH; TRIAL; AMPLIFICATION; STIMULATION; MANAGEMENT; ADJUNCT; COULD; tinnitus; hearing aid fitting; tinnitus perception |
| Subjects: | 600 Technology > 610 Medical sciences Medicine |
| Divisions: | Medicine > Lehrstuhl für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie |
| Depositing User: | Petra Gürster |
| Date Deposited: | 17 Jan 2023 07:29 |
| Last Modified: | 17 Jan 2023 07:29 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/47160 |
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