TY - JOUR
T1 - Comparison of tinnitus loudness measures
T2 - Matching, rating, and scaling
AU - Manning, Candice
AU - Grush, Leslie
AU - Thielman, Emily
AU - Roberts, Larry
AU - Henry, James A.
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was funded by VA Rehabilitation Research & Development Service Grant C1205R, awarded to James A. Henry. James A. Henry is supported by a Research Career Scientist award provided by VA Rehabilitation Research & Development Service Grant C9247S. The contents of this publication do not represent the views of the Department of Veterans Affairs or the U.S. Government. We would like to acknowledge Garnett McMillan, Christie Choma, and Christine Kaelin for their work on this study. We express our sincere appreciation to our Veteran patients who have served our country and who provided innumerable insights for managing tinnitus.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.
Copyright:
Copyright 2019 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2019/3
Y1 - 2019/3
N2 - Purpose: Chronic tinnitus (“ringing in the ears”) is a phantom auditory perception with no cure. A goal of treatment is often to reduce the loudness of tinnitus. However, tinnitus loudness cannot be measured objectively. It is most commonly assessed by obtaining a loudness match (LM) with a pure tone and by using a numeric rating scale (NRS). Constrained loudness scaling (CLS) is a more recent measure of tinnitus loudness that utilizes auditory training of a fixed loudness scale to guide tinnitus loudness judgments. The purpose of this study was to compare results using these 3 measures of tinnitus loudness. Method: This study obtained tinnitus loudness measures of LM, NRS, and CLS with 170 participants. These participants are part of a larger study obtaining repeated measures over 6 months. Only baseline data are presented. Results: Correlations between all measures were weak to moderate: LM versus CLS (r =.46), CLS versus NRS (r =.49), and LM versus NRS (r =.38). Conclusion: Further systematic research is needed to more fully understand the relationships between these different measures and to establish a valid measure of tinnitus loudness.
AB - Purpose: Chronic tinnitus (“ringing in the ears”) is a phantom auditory perception with no cure. A goal of treatment is often to reduce the loudness of tinnitus. However, tinnitus loudness cannot be measured objectively. It is most commonly assessed by obtaining a loudness match (LM) with a pure tone and by using a numeric rating scale (NRS). Constrained loudness scaling (CLS) is a more recent measure of tinnitus loudness that utilizes auditory training of a fixed loudness scale to guide tinnitus loudness judgments. The purpose of this study was to compare results using these 3 measures of tinnitus loudness. Method: This study obtained tinnitus loudness measures of LM, NRS, and CLS with 170 participants. These participants are part of a larger study obtaining repeated measures over 6 months. Only baseline data are presented. Results: Correlations between all measures were weak to moderate: LM versus CLS (r =.46), CLS versus NRS (r =.49), and LM versus NRS (r =.38). Conclusion: Further systematic research is needed to more fully understand the relationships between these different measures and to establish a valid measure of tinnitus loudness.
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U2 - 10.1044/2018_AJA-17-0115
DO - 10.1044/2018_AJA-17-0115
M3 - Article
C2 - 30938558
AN - SCOPUS:85064224872
VL - 28
SP - 137
EP - 143
JO - American Journal of Audiology
JF - American Journal of Audiology
SN - 1059-0889
IS - 1
ER -