Hearing aids as an adjunct to counseling: tinnitus patients who choose amplification do better than those that don't.

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Hearing aids as an adjunct to counseling: tinnitus patients who choose amplification do better than those that don't.

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Hearing aids are commonly used for tinnitus management ( Kochkin & Tyler, 2008 ) but there is limited evidence to support their use. The purpose of this study was to quantify the effectiveness of hearing aids and counseling as a tinnitus treatment option. This study is a retrospective analysis of tinnitus handicap questionnaire (THQ, Kuk et al, 1990 ) results from 58 tinnitus patients with hearing loss who received counseling, and (1) chose to follow recommendations of hearing aid fitting, or...

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2010-08

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Searchfield, Grant / Kaur, Manpreet / Martin, WH

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http://hdl.handle.net/2292/11723

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Adolescent / Adult / Aged / Aged, 80 and over / Audiometry / Combined Modality Therapy / Counseling / Disability Evaluation / Female / Hearing Aids / Hearing Loss / Humans / Male / Middle Aged / Prosthesis Fitting / Questionnaires / Retrospective Studies / Tinnitus / Treatment Outcome / Young Adult

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