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Hearing aids as an adjunct to counseling: Tinnitus patients who choose amplification do better than those that don't

Grant D. Searchfield Audiology Section, The University of Auckland, New ZealandCorrespondence[email protected]
,
Manpreet Kaur Audiology Section, The University of Auckland, New Zealand
&
William H. Martin Oregon Hearing Research Center, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, USA
Pages 574-579 | Received 25 Aug 2009, Accepted 14 Mar 2010, Published online: 25 May 2010

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Saikrishna C. Gourishetti, Chelsea Carter, Nicole K. Nguyen, LaGuinn Sherlock & David J. Eisenman. (2021) Presence of hearing loss is predictive of return for further stages of tinnitus therapy following initial education and counseling. International Journal of Audiology 60:6, pages 421-426.
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Nadeem Mahafza, Fei Zhao, Amr El Refaie & Feifan Chen. (2021) A comparison of the severity of tinnitus in patients with and without hearing loss using the tinnitus functional index (TFI). International Journal of Audiology 60:3, pages 220-226.
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Mohamed Ibrahim Shabana, Abeir Osman Dabbous, Mohamed Ahmed Abdelmajeed & Ayman Mohamed Mohamed Abdelkarim. (2018) ‘Counselling and amplification with and without fractal music (Zen tones) for management of patients suffering from hearing loss and tinnitus’. Hearing, Balance and Communication 16:1, pages 41-55.
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Giriraj Singh Shekhawat, Grant D. Searchfield, Kei Kobayashi & Cathy M. Stinear. (2013) Prescription of hearing-aid output for tinnitus relief. International Journal of Audiology 52:9, pages 617-625.
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Gerhard Andersson, Anita Keshishi & David M. Baguley. (2011) Benefit from hearing aids in users with and without tinnitus. Audiological Medicine 9:2, pages 73-78.
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