Influence of different aspects on psychoacoustic measurements of patients with chronic tinnitus
Influência de diferentes aspectos nas medidas psicoacústicas de pacientes com zumbido crônico
Larissa Yasmine de Lima; Adriane Ribeiro Teixeira; Letícia Petersen Schmidt Rosito; Alexandre Hundertmarck Lessa
Abstract
Purpose: to verify the sex, age, tinnitus location, presence or absence of hearing loss, its degree, and the psychoacoustic measurements (pitch, loudness, minimum masking level [MML], and residual inhibition [RI]) of patients with chronic tinnitus and their relationships.
Methods: the study included subjects of both sexes, aged 25 to 85 years, with complaints of chronic tinnitus, followed up at the health service where the research was conducted. They were submitted to medical history survey, basic audiological assessment, and pitch, loudness, RI, and MML research. The following statistical tests were used: chi-square test, Fisher’s exact test, Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney U test, Kruskal-Wallis test, and Spearman’s correlation coefficient. The significance level was set at 5% (p≤0.05).
Results: the type of tinnitus was associated with the presence or absence of hearing loss (HL), degree of HL, MML, and loudness; age was associated with the presence or absence of HL and its degree. There was a directly weak proportional correlation between loudness and MML, whereas the correlations between pitch and loudness, pitch and MML, and RI and MML were weak and inversely proportional.
Conclusion: both the affected subjects and their tinnitus characteristics were heterogeneous. The results indicate that some variables influence one another, which also happens between psychoacoustic measurements.
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Objetivo: verificar o gênero, a idade, a localização do zumbido, a presença ou ausência de perda auditiva e seu grau, assim como as medidas psicoacústicas (pitch, loudness, nível mínimo de mascaramento e inibição residual) de pacientes com zumbido crônico e as suas relações.
Métodos: o estudo incluiu sujeitos de ambos os gêneros, com idades entre 25 e 85 anos, com queixa de zumbido crônico e que realizassem acompanhamento em ambulatório especializado do Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre. Foram submetidos a anamnese, avaliação audiológica básica, pesquisa de pitch, loudness, inibição residual (IR) e nível mínimo de mascaramento (NMM). Foram utilizados os seguintes testes estatísticos: Teste Qui-Quadrado, Teste Exato de Fisher, Teste U de Wilcoxon - Mann-Whitney, Teste Kruskal Wallis e Coeficiente de Correlação de Spearman. O nível de significância utilizado foi de 5% (p≤0,05).
Resultados: houve associação entre a variável tipo de zumbido e presença ou ausência de perda auditiva (PA), grau de PA, NMM e loudness, assim como, entre idade e presença ou ausência de PA e seu grau. A loudness e o NMM apresentaram fraca correlação diretamente proporcional, ao passo que as correlações entre pitch e loudness, pitch e NMM e IR versus NMM apresentaram-se fracas e inversamente proporcionais.
Conclusão: houve heterogeneidade entre as características do zumbido e dos indivíduos acometidos. Conclui-se, de acordo com os resultados expostos, que existe influência de algumas variáveis entre si, da mesma maneira que ocorre entre as medidas psicoacústicas.
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Submitted date:
13/09/2022
Accepted date:
01/11/2022
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