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KMID : 1118520180150010034
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Psychiatry Investigation
2018 Volume.15 No. 1 p.34 ~ p.40
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Effects of Anxiety Sensitivity and Hearing Loss on Tinnitus Symptom Severity
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Moon Kyung-Ray
Park Su-Bin
Jung You-Ji
Lee Ah-Reum
Lee Jung-Hyun
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Abstract
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Objective:The aim of the present study was to examine the relative role of anxiety sensitivity and hearing loss on the tinnitus symptoms severity in a large clinical sample of patients with tinnitus.
Methods: A total of 1,705 patients with tinnitus who visited the tinnitus clinic underwent the pure-tone audiometric testing and a battery of self-report questionnaires. Multiple linear regression analyses were performed to identify the relationship of anxiety sensitivity and hearing loss to tinnitus symptoms severity.
Results: Both anxiety sensitivity and hearing loss were a significant association with of annoyance (anxiety sensitivity β=0.11, p=0.010; hearing loss β=0.09, p=0.005) and THI score (anxiety sensitivity β=0.21, p<0.001; hearing loss β=0.10, p<0.001) after adjusting for confounding factors. Meanwhile, the awareness time (β=0.19, p<0.001) and loudness (β=0.11, p<0.001) of tinnitus was associated with only the hearing loss but not with anxiety sensitivity
Conclusion: Our results indicate that both hearing loss and anxiety sensitivity were associated with increased tinnitus symptom severity. Furthermore, these associations could be different according to the characteristics of tinnitus symptoms.
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KEYWORD
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Anxiety sensitivity, Anxiety sensitivity index, Hearing loss, Tinnitus, Tinnitus handicap inventory
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