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Table 2 Demographic and clinical characteristic at baseline

From: Clinical trial on tonal tinnitus with tailor-made notched music training

 

Treatment

Placebo

p-value

Mean (SD)

Mean (SD)

Number

50

50

 

Age (years)

47.68 (9.94)

47.13 (11.70)

.737

Gender (f/m)

17/33

16/34

.834

Hearing loss (dB)a

41.10 (20.26)

44.60 (21.54)

.405

Tinnitus frequency (Hz)b

5406 (1731)

5458 (1519)

.921

tinnitus pitch SD (Hz)b

1341 (1202)

1333 (1181)

.855

Time since tinnitus onset (years)

7.03 (7.25)

8.95 (6.80)

.175

THQ total score

24.95 (16.92)

28.51 (16.41)

.288

THQ emotional and cognitive distress

20.95 (19.61)

22.85 (20.20)

.635

VAS total score

42.83 (21.71)

44.71 (19.28)

.647

VAS loudness

50.70 (23.19)

48.86 (22.23)

.686

VAS handicap

28.58 (22.26)

31.36 (22.30)

.534

VAS annoyance

39.70 (26.18)

40.32 (22.27)

.899

VAS awareness

52.32 (24.58)

58.30 (21.57)

.199

THI

24.10 (14.96)

26.96 (16.92)

.373

TQ

19.12 (10,62)

25.28 (13.82)

.014

ADSL

7.80 (6.29)

9.38 (7.27)

.248

SCL-90-R

0.29 (0.28)

0.36 (0.34)

.218

GüF

8.62 (5.59)

10.58 (7.43)

.139

  1. m = male, f = female, Hz = Hertz, dB = decibel, Tinnitus pitch SD = standard deviation of ten tinnitus pitch measurements before training
  2. amaximum hearing loss in a frequency range ½ of an octave above and below the individual tinnitus frequency; bCent values retransformed into Hz to allow better interpretation