Current Validated Medical Treatments for Tinnitus: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Laurence McKenna; Florian Vogt; Elizabeth Marks

doi:10.1016/j.otc.2020.03.007

Current Validated Medical Treatments for Tinnitus: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Laurence McKenna, Florian Vogt, Elizabeth Marks

University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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Abstract

Tinnitus distress results from a weave of physical and psychological processes. Reducing the power of the psychological processes will therefore reduce the degree of suffering. The main psychological therapy in this context is cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). This seeks to understand and change the influence of thinking processes, including information processing biases, and the behaviors that these motivate, on the experience of tinnitus. The results of systematic reviews and meta-analyses indicate that CBT is the tinnitus management approach for which there is the most robust evidence. In spite of this it remains difficult to access for people with tinnitus.

Original language	English
Pages	605-615
Number of pages	11
Volume	53
No.	4
Specialist publication	Otolaryngologic Clinics of North America
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.otc.2020.03.007
Publication status	Published - Aug 2020

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Keywords

Acceptance
Cognitive behavioral therapy
Insomnia
MBCT
Mindfulness
Tinnitus

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Otorhinolaryngology

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