Systematic Assessment of Self-help Tools for the Management of Chronic Tinnitus (TinnitusTips)

University Hospital Regensburg

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Tinnitus, Subjective

Treatments: Behavioral: TinnitusTipps

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04069364

17-544-101

Details and patient eligibility

About

With this study we want to investigate the impact of self-help tools on the subjective tinnitus distress in chronic tinnitus patients.

Furthermore, we want to investigate the influence of personal characteristics on the individual tinnitus improvement.

Full description

A smart-phone app running on iOS devices will be used to give self-help tips to the chronic tinnitus patients.

Enrollment: 50 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 75 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• chronic tinnitus, duration at least 6 monhts

Exclusion criteria

• acute psychosis, depression, substance abuse
• psychopharmaca
• epilepsy or other disease of the central nervous system
• other tinnitus treatments in the last 3 months
• drug, medication or alcohol abuse in the last 12 weeks

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Sequential Assignment

Masking: Single Blind