Subjective tinnitus and hearing problems in adolescents

Bülbül, Selda; Muluk, Nuray Bayar; Çakir, Elif Pınar; Tufan, Erennur

doi:10.1016/j.ijporl.2009.04.018

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“…In our study, tinnitus was reported by 23.6 to 26.2% of our subjects, which is comparable to previous studies of selfreported tinnitus in children and adolescents reported by Savastano (2007) at 23.6%, but seemingly less than 31.5 to 36.8% reported by Bulbul et al (2009). Widen and Erlandsson (2004) reported the prevalence of tinnitus to be 8.7%.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 88%

Audiometric thresholds among a Canadian sample of 10 to 17 year old students

Marcoux

Feder

Keith

et al. 2012

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

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A total of 237 students, 10 to 17 years of age, from 14 schools underwent hearing evaluations. Otoscopic examination, tympanometry and air-conduction pure tone audiometry was conducted at low (0.5, 1, 2 kHz) and high (4 and 8 kHz) frequencies. In all schools, hearing thresholds were measured with headphones in a portable audiometric booth. Socio-demographic information from students and their parents were collected using questionnaires. Overall, the prevalence of any hearing loss greater than 15 dB was 22.3% for low or high frequency pure tone averages. Self-reported symptoms of hearing loss, such as tinnitus, difficulty following a conversation with background noise, and having to turn up the TV/radio more than in the past, were associated with audiometric thresholds, most notably at 4 kHz. These study findings are among the first to provide a detailed characterization of hearing status in a sample of youth in a Canadian demographic.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 88%

Audiometric thresholds among a Canadian sample of 10 to 17 year old students

Marcoux

Feder

Keith

et al. 2012

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

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“…Tinnitus is also often associated with the use of music players such as the walkman and iPOD devices both in the right ear (p = 0.004) and in the left ear (p = 0.000) [34].…”

Section: Noise Exposurementioning

confidence: 99%

Epidemiology of Tinnitus in Children

Coelho

2011

Textbook of Tinnitus

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Keypoints1. Children experience tinnitus and might present similar suffering as observed in adults but they rarely mention the symptom unless directly asked about it. 2. Difficulty on concentration, sleeping, hearing, leisure activities, sports practice, and hyperacusis are the most frequent complaints associated to tinnitus in children. 3. Only a few population studies have been performed and have disclosed prevalence rates from 6% to 59%. Many factors might be implicated in the large interstudy variability of tinnitus prevalence in children. 4. Age, gender, hearing loss, motion sickness, hyperacusis, and noise exposure have been suggested as risk factors to development of tinnitus in children. 5. A proper model to investigate children should be developed for the purpose of obtaining accurate information about the prevalence of tinnitus in children. 6. Preventive measures should aim at hearing education about the risk of hearing loss and tinnitus. Prevention of noise exposure should be promoted as early as possible.

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“…Reports of tinnitus continue to rise due to both widespread use of personal entertainment and communication devices, particularly in children (Widen and Erlandsson 2004;Bulbul et al 2009;Landgrebe et al 2009), and military-connected noise exposure in Veterans (Fausti et al 2009). Severe tinnitus disrupts daily function from sleep to work, often leading to anxiety, depression, and other behaviors of distress (Zoger et al 2001).…”

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Temporary Suppression of Tinnitus by Modulated Sounds

Reavis

Rothholtz

Tang

et al. 2012

JARO

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Despite high prevalence of tinnitus and its impact on quality life, there is no cure for tinnitus at present. Here, we report an effective means to temporarily suppress tinnitus by amplitude- and frequency-modulated tones. We systematically explored the interaction between subjective tinnitus and 17 external sounds in 20 chronic tinnitus sufferers. The external sounds included traditionally used unmodulated stimuli such as pure tones and white noise and dynamically modulated stimuli known to produce sustained neural synchrony in the central auditory pathway. All external sounds were presented in a random order to all subjects and at a loudness level that was just below tinnitus loudness. We found some tinnitus suppression in terms of reduced loudness by at least one of the 17 stimuli in 90% of the subjects, with the greatest suppression by amplitude-modulated tones with carrier frequencies near the tinnitus pitch for tinnitus sufferers with relatively normal loudness growth. Our results suggest that, in addition to a traditional masking approach using unmodulated pure tones and white noise, modulated sounds should be used for tinnitus suppression because they may be more effective in reducing hyperactive neural activities associated with tinnitus. The long-term effects of the modulated sounds on tinnitus and the underlying mechanisms remain to be investigated.

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Subjective tinnitus and hearing problems in adolescents

Cited by 44 publications

References 13 publications

Audiometric thresholds among a Canadian sample of 10 to 17 year old students

Audiometric thresholds among a Canadian sample of 10 to 17 year old students

Epidemiology of Tinnitus in Children

Temporary Suppression of Tinnitus by Modulated Sounds

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