Single versus combination treatment in tinnitus: an international, multicentre, parallel-arm, superiority, randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT: Tinnitus is defined as the conscious awareness of a tonal or composite noise in the absence of a corresponding external acoustic source. This international multicentre, parallel-arm, superiority, randomised controlled trial investigated whether combination therapies are superior to single interventions in the treatment of chronic subjective tinnitus. Tinnitus patients were recruited from five clinical sites across the EU and randomly assigned using a web-based system, stratified by their hearing and distress level, to single or combination treatment of 12 weeks. Cognitive-behavioural therapy, hearing aids, app-based structured counselling, or app-based sound therapy were administered either alone or as a combination of two treatments resulting in ten treatment arms. App-based treatments we

SUBMITTER: Schoisswohl S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12647723 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature