Tinnitus Treatment Using a Smartphone Application

Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center

Status: Completed

Conditions: Tinnitus, Subjective

Treatments: Behavioral: Tinnitus application

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03688113

0493-18-TLV

Details and patient eligibility

About

People with tinnitus will use a smartpphone app in which they are instructed to reject maladaptive thoughts by throwing them away from themselves (upwards) and embrace supportive thoughts by pulling them towards themselves (downwards). The Tinnitus Handicap Inventory will be used to measure the effect of the application.

Enrollment: 31 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Tinnitus lasting more than 3 months

Exclusion criteria

• Brain space occupying lesion

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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31 participants in 2 patient groups

Treatment

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Tinnitus application

Wait list

Other group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Tinnitus application