The Value of EMDR in the Treatment of Tinnitus

Antwerp University Hospital (UZA)

Status

Completed

Conditions

Tinnitus

Treatments

Behavioral: TRT / CBT

Other: TRT / EMDR

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT03114878

ECUZA16/35/360

Details and patient eligibility

About

A prospective, randomized, controlled, clinical trial with blind evaluator that uses TRT and EMDR as a treatment for tinnitus.

Full description

Patients with subjective, chronic, non-pulsatile tinnitus will be randomized in two treatment groups: TRT and CBT versus TRT and EMDR. Evaluations will take place at baseline before therapy starts, at the end of the treatment, after 3 months (10 treatment sessions) and 3 months after therapy ends. The Tinnitus Functional Index (TFI) will be used as the primary outcome measurement. Secondary outcome measurements will be the Visual Analogue Scale of Loudness (VAS), Tinnitus Questionnaire (TQ), Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS), Hyperacusis Questionnaire (HQ), psychoacoustic measurements and Event-related potentials (ERP). The objective is to evaluate whether the bimodal therapy TRT and EMDR can provide faster and/or more relief from the annoyance experienced in chronic tinnitus patients' daily lives compared to the bimodal therapy TRT and CBT.

Enrollment

166 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18 to 75 years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Tinnitus type: chronic, subjective, non - pulsatile tinnitus
Duration of tinnitus = more than 3 months
Minimum age of the patient is 18 years old - maximum age is 75 years old
Tinnitus Functional Index (TFI) score ≥ 25 - < 90
Stable use of medication during therapy

Exclusion criteria

HADS - score: anxiety and depression-subscores > 15
HQ - score > 40
Objective, pulsatile tinnitus
Active middle ear pathology
Neurological and psychiatry co-morbidity for which currently psychotherapy is ongoing
Psychosis, schizophrenia, epilepsy
Pregnancy