[To analyse the impact of tinnitus loudness and hearing loss on the life of tinnitus patient].
OBJECTIVE
To analyse the impact of tinnitus loudness, tinnitus frequency, hearing loss, tinnitus subjective loudness on the life of tinnitus patient.


METHODS
To inspect the 154 tinnitus patients with pure tone audiometry, tinnitus matching, tinnitus classification questionnaire and THI scale. This study applies THI scale to evaluate the impact of tinnitus on the life of tinnitus patient. Using statistical methods to analyse the relationship between tinnitus loudness, tinnitus frequency, hearing loss, tinnitus subjective loudness and the impact of tinnitus on the life of tinnitus patient.


RESULTS
(1) Tinnitus frequency is closed with the frequency of hearing loss. (2) There is no significant correlation between tinnitus loudness and the impact of tinnitus on the life of tinnitus patient. (3) There is no distinction between hearing loss and the THI scores. (4) The patient gets more scores in subgroup of THI with the increase of tinnitus subjective loudness classification.


CONCLUSIONS
The impact of tinnitus loudness, hearing loss on the life of tinnitus patient is not very clearly, while the impact of tinnitus subjective loudness classification on the life of tinnitus patient is significant. In clinical, we can not evaluate the effect of the tinnitus treatment relying on tinnitus loudness and hearing loss simply.The finding provides us individual treatment to tinnitus patients.
Department of Otorhinolaryngology, the General Hospital of Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, 300052, China.
Jing
J
Yang
Huifang
H
Zhou
Dong
D
Yang
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001301:Audiometry, Pure-Tone; D034381:Hearing Loss / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006801:Humans; D008144:Loudness Perception; D008875:Middle Aged; D011788:Quality of Life; D014012:Tinnitus / Q000503:physiopathology*; D055815:Young Adult