Association between hearing status and tinnitus distress

Figures & data

Table 1. Demographic data for each group separately and all participants together.

		Total	NHT	HIT
Participants	n	38	19	19
Sex	Male/Female	16/22	8/11	8/11
Age (years)	Range	23.3–65.2	23.8–65.2	23.3–64.7
	Mean ± SD	36.9 ± 12.4	36.9 ± 12.4	36.8 ± 12.7
Mean tinnitus sided hearing thresholds (PTA; 0.5–4 kHz)	Range	−4.4–75.0	−4.4–10.0	15.0–75.0
	Mean ± SD	17.1 ± 19.2	−1.0 ± 3.9	33.1 ± 14.2
Mean tinnitus sided hearing thresholds (PTA; 10–16 kHz)	Range	−3.8–73.8	−3.8–57.5	15.0–73.8
	Mean ± SD	32.2 + 25.2	13.4 + 15.6	51.0 + 17.7
Hospital Anxiety Depression Scale (HADS)	Range	2–23	2–23	2–19
	Mean ± SD	10.9 + 5.6	10.8 + 6.3	11.1 + 5.0
HADS Anxiety subscale (HADSA)	Range	1–17	1–17	1–12
	Mean ± SD	7.3 + 3.7	7.4 + 4.4	7.1 + 2.9
HADS Depression subscale (HADSD)	Range	0–9	0–8	0–9
	Mean ± SD	3.7 + 2.7	3,4 + 2.6	4.0 + 2.8
Lateralization	Bilateral	23	11	12
	Unilateral	8	3	5
	Undefinable	7	5	2
Age at tinnitus onset (years)	Range	0–60.7	0–58.2	2.6–60.7
	Mean ± SD	27.0 ± 15.2	25.5 ± 16.6	28.6 ± 13.9
Tinnitus Handicap Inventory (THI) scores	Range	6–84	6–58	6–84
	Mean ± SD	35.3 ± 21.4	27.2 ± 18.3	43.5 ± 21.5

NHT: Normal Hearing Tinnitus group; HIT: Hearing Impaired Tinnitus group; PTA: Pure Tone Average.

P-values: Age: .99; PTA 0.5-4: < .001; PTA 10-16: < .001; HADS: .89; HADSA: .79; HADSD: .51; Age at onset: .54; THI: .016.

Figure 1. Difference in mean THI score between hearing impaired tinnitus participants (HIT) and normal hearing tinnitus participants (NHT). * = indicating significant difference, p-value <.05. Error bars depicting 1 standard deviation.

Figure 2. Correlation between THI score and mean tinnitus sided hearing thresholds at 0.5–4 kHz for all participants. Line depicting line of best fit.