The Impact of Tinnitus on N-Back Performance in Normal Hearing Individuals.
Background: Tinnitus sufferers commonly report concentration difficulties. Despite several previous studies investigating this, the underlying cause and the role of hearing status remains unclear. Purpose: To investigate whether there are any differences between normal hearing individuals with and w...
| Publicado en: | Journal of the American Academy of Audiology Vol. 30; no. 3; pp. 169 - 178 |
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Thieme Medical Publishing Inc.
Mar2019
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=135581329&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 135581329 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 10500545 9OC jtl: Journal of the American Academy of Audiology issn: 10500545 maglogo: Y pubinfo: dt: Mar2019 vid: 30 iid: 3 pid: 2811 pub: Thieme Medical Publishing Inc. place: New York, New York artinfo: ui: 135581329 135581329 135581329 10.3766/jaaa.17048 135581329 ppf: 169 ppct: 9 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P tig: atl: The Impact of Tinnitus on N-Back Performance in Normal Hearing Individuals. aug: au: Waechter, Sebastian Hallendorf, Linda Malmstein, Emelie Olsson, Anna Brännström, K. Jonas affil: Department of Logopedics, Phoniatrics and Audiology, Clinical Sciences Lund, Lund University, Lund, Sweden sug: subj: Tinnitus Hearing Memory, Short Term Task Performance and Analysis Auditory Threshold Cognition Evaluation Human Scales Questionnaires Friedman Test Mann-Whitney U Test Descriptive Statistics Sweden Male Female Adult Adult: 19-44 years Male Female ab: Background: Tinnitus sufferers commonly report concentration difficulties. Despite several previous studies investigating this, the underlying cause and the role of hearing status remains unclear. Purpose: To investigate whether there are any differences between normal hearing individuals with and without tinnitus in terms of working memory capacity, and whether working memory capacity correlates with high-frequency hearing thresholds. Research Design: Participants had their hearing thresholds measured (0.125-16 kHz) and performed a visual n-back test. All participants completed the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, in addition tinnitus participants filled out the Tinnitus Questionnaire. Study Sample: Sixty-two individuals participated, 31 had tinnitus (tinnitus group) and 31 did not have tinnitus (control group). Groups were age- and sex matched, and all participants had normal hearing thresholds (20 dB HL or better at 0.125-8 kHz). Data Analysis: Friedman test of differences among repeated measures was conducted on the collected data of n-back performance, and Mann-Whitney U-test was used to compare groups. Age-corrected correlations were calculated for high-frequency hearing and each n-back condition. Results: We found no significant differences between the groups in terms of n-back task performances, except for the 2-back condition where the tinnitus group performed significantly better than the controls (p = 0.007). Furthermore, we found high-frequency hearing thresholds of the best ear (10-16 kHz) to correlate with performances at more demanding n-back conditions (p = 0.029 for 1-back and p = 0.015 for 2-back). Conclusion: This suggests that presence of tinnitus might not imply poorer working memory capacity and that deteriorated high-frequency hearing thresholds. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: research tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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