جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه « tinnitus » در نشریات گروه « روانشناسی »

One of the most common mental problems among tinnitus patients is anxiety. Therefore, the present study was conducted with the aim of comparing the effectiveness of combined metacognitive therapy with transcranial electrical stimulation on reducing anxiety in chronic tinnitus sufferers.

The research design was semi-experimental with a pre-test-post-test design with a control group, and the statistical population included all patients with tinnitus who referred to Rizvan Afshar Hearing Evaluation Center in Arak city in 1401. The size of the statistical sample was 30 people (15 people in the experimental group and 15 people in the control group) from the mentioned statistical population, who were selected by available sampling method and randomly placed in two control and experimental groups. During 8 sessions, the experimental group was first subjected to transcranial electrical stimulation for 20 minutes and immediately underwent metacognitive therapeutic intervention for 60 minutes, and the control group received only their usual treatment (transcranial electrical stimulation). In this research, Beck's anxiety questionnaire was used to collect data. In order to statistically analyze the obtained data, univariate analysis of covariance test was used.

The mean of scores of anxiety before and after the intervention in the experimental group were 11.13 and 7.20, respectively, and in the control group, 11.40 and 8.53, respectively. The results of covariance analysis showed that the mean anxiety in the experimental group has decreased significantly (P<0.01) after the combined intervention of metacognitive therapy with transcranial electrical stimulation in comparison with the control group.

The results of this research indicate that the combined intervention of metacognitive therapy with transcranial electrical stimulation has significantly improved anxiety, so the use of this intervention is recommended for chronic tinnitus sufferers

Occupational noise is one of the major causes of hearing loss and tinnitus. In the present study, the effect of occupational noise-induced tinnitus on auditory attention was investigated. A sample of 42 man, all workers, ages 40 to 56, participated in the study in three groups of workers with hearing loss, hearing loss and tinnitus, and normal hearing. Workers in two first groups had a long history of working in environments with excessive noise, and third group was matched control workers with normal hearing. For all subjects the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) and the Bergen dichotic listening test were performed in identical conditions. In all three conditions of attention, including non-forced, forced right, and forced left attentions, right ear advantage (REA) was lower in tinnitus and hearing loss group than the two other groups. The difference between the tinnitus and hearing loss groups and the control group was significant in the non-forced attention condition (p<0.047). Furthermore, both groups had poorer result in the MSSE test compared to the control group (p<0.025). Our study revealed effect of noiseinduced tinnitus on selective and divided auditory attention. It seems that tinnitus is affects both both bottom- up and top-down processing of speech stimuli.