The Experience of Tinnitus and Its Interaction With Unique Life Histories-Life Events, Trauma and Inner Resources Narrated by Patients With Tinnitus.

ABSTRACT: Background: The challenges facing people with chronic tinnitus include finding relief and rebuilding quality of life. However, previous traumatic episodes may influence adjustment and prolong suffering. Recovery implies reducing aggravating reactions and improving social roles, relationships and interests. Self-narratives about living with tinnitus have not yet received the attention they deserve in the research literature. Thus, the main goal of the present study was to illustrate how tinnitus suffering interacts with the participants' unique life histories. Method: Four women and one man (ages 52-58) took part in the study after consulting a special hearing clinic for annoying tinnitus. Criteria for inclusion were that tinnitus was regarded as a problem with negative consequences for qua

SUBMITTER: Erlandsson SI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7093576 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature