Examining Mental Fatigue in Auditory Rehabilitation: Impact of Hearing Loss and Tinnitus | Chapter 2 | Medical Research and Its Applications Vol. 2

 

Background: Tinnitus, hearing loss and mental fatigue are multidimensional. Tinnitus may lead to a reduced health-related QoL affecting domains such as physical functioning, vitality and mental health.

Aim: The purpose of this study was to identify and determine the degree of mental fatigue in patients with hearing loss and/or tinnitus participating in audiological rehabilitation, and to examine the self-reported Mental Fatigue Scale (MFS) in this patient group.

Methods: Patients undergoing audiological rehabilitation at the Department of Audiology and Neurotology, Karolinska University Hospital, Sweden, 2011-2017, who completed a self-reported MFS questionnaire were investigated. Data on 76 consecutive patients were analysed in this pilot study. Patients were also assessed with the Tinnitus Handicap Inventory (THI). Data from medical records, MFS and THI were analysed with e.g. t-tests, chi-square tests, and correlation analysis. Some potential limitations are that the present study had no control group, and used retrospective data collected during clinical visits.

Results: The study population had an age range of 38-65 years, and most had normal hearing (37%) or mild-to-moderate hearing loss (46%). Only 17% had severe-to-profound hearing loss. A total of 56.5% had tinnitus, of whom 39.5% scored ≥57 on the THI, indicating severe tinnitus, whereas 43.5% reported no tinnitus. The MFS scores, ranged 13-42.5 points, were divided into three severity levels for analysis: 10.5-15 (mild), 15.5-20 (moderate) and ≥20.5 (severe symptoms). In total, 67% of the patients had severe MFS scores ≥20.5. Importantly, most of the participants (90%) with a THI score ≥57 belonged to that group. There were 17 patients with normal hearing with MFS scores ≥20.5. MFS scores ≥30 and THI scores 78-100 were found in 11 patients. A significant positive correlation between MFS and severe tinnitus was found.

Conclusions: The study reveals that severe mental fatigue is more common in patients with severe tinnitus than sole hearing loss.

 

Author(s)details:-

 

Satu Turunen-Taheri
Department of CLINTEC, Division of Ear, Nose and Throat Diseases, Karolinska Institutet, SE-141 86 Stockholm, Sweden and Department of Audiology and Neurotology, Karolinska University Hospital, SE-118 95 Stockholm, Sweden and Department of CLINTEC, Division of Audiology, Karolinska Institutet, SE-141 85 Huddinge, Sweden.

 

Per-Inge Carlsson
Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Central Hospital, Karlstad, Sweden and Faculty of Medicine and Health, Medicine and Health, Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden.

 

Elisabeth Ternevall
Department of Audiology and Neurotology, Karolinska University Hospital, SE-118 95 Stockholm, Sweden.

 

Sten Hellström
Department of CLINTEC, Division of Ear, Nose and Throat Diseases, Karolinska Institutet, SE-141 86 Stockholm, Sweden and Department of Audiology and Neurotology, Karolinska University Hospital, SE-118 95 Stockholm, Sweden.

 

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Study about Persistent Tinnitus in Post Covid-19 Infections: 3 Cases | Chapter 12 | Current Progress in Medicine and Medical Research Vol. 8

 This episode highlights about Persistent Tinnitus in Post Covid-19 Infections. In recent age, the prevalence and spread of coronavirus has had a giant impact on global community health. Due to the incomplete understanding of the pathogenic system of the virus, it is difficult for persons to fight against the bug quickly and effectively late the outbreak happens. Even though this disease mostly influences the respiratory plan, it also affects various organs and schemes, which can be deadly. There is concern for potential injury to the human central ear, which buildings the primary hearing tool. Tinnitus, defined as the feeling of hearing a sound in the absence of some external sound, is completely common, but usually temporary, and doesn’t affect things significantly. For some though, it maybe a serious issue accompanying significant life-impact. Tinnitus and trial loss are prevailing in a variety of otolaryngological disorders, but they appear to be considerably worse in COVID -19 inmates as a result of specific insane-somatic issues and sure social-cultural backlashes. Many people also trust that auto invulnerable correlation is to blame. Tinnitus in COVID-19 things is a disorder that receives little consideration in research or literature. Thus, this is humble attempt made by us to study three cases of continuous tinnitus in post COVID-19 infection. The asperity, duration clinical verdicts along with itemized audiometric evaluation was done at a health management facility in Doha, Qatar for individual-year period from June 2020 to May 2021. Emergence of emergent tinnitus with usual hearing was taken into concern also. Co-morbidities acted not affect tinnitus as it is important all the while the history attractive process.

Author(s) Details:

Debashis Acharya,
Primary Healthcare Corporation (P.H.C.C), Qatar.

Fazil Kalanchira Basheer,
Primary Healthcare Corporation (P.H.C.C), Qatar.

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An Overview of Tinnitus (The Humming Ear): Epidemiology and Pathophysiology | Chapter 8 | Research Highlights in Disease and Health Research Vol. 3

 The present study determines an overview of Tinnitus and allure management. It is very beneficial for otology students and medical experts who practise visual and audio entertainment transmitted via radio waves vestibular medicine. This educates doctors a systematic plan for determining the asperity of a condition, which is in and of itself a very questioning subject to master, and by what method to treat patients the one have this morbidity. Tinnitus is deliberate a disorder of sound tolerance and is exceptionally a harbinger of serious study of plants, but careful dispassionate assessment is necessary. Getting a detailed and all-encompassing history is the keystone of treating a patient with tinnitus. A all-encompassing clinical and audiological test should before come next. Specialists in otorhinolaryngology and audiovestibular cure are the next professionals expected involved in the care of a patient with tinnitus later the general practitioner. Briefly considered are the key ideas in evaluating, diagnosing, and treating the dispassionate manifestations of tinnitus.  By the turn of the twentieth of one hundred years, tinnitus research took a new turn. It was concluded that the closeness of tinnitus was always approximately associated with physical incapacity and the physiology of tinnitus is belonging to neurophysiological research. There is Objective as well as Subjective tinnitus. Duration of tinnitus of inferior three months is considered Acute, otherwise it is viewed as Chronic. Most tinnitus sufferers go through a process of recurrence, and the symptoms' asperity lessens over time. Interventions that enhance hearing are frequently helpful & differing audiological and psychological management plannings for tinnitus have been grown. Disorders of sound tolerance are extensive, but there are still many undecided management questions on account of ambiguous terminology and unsettled pathophysiology.

Author(s) Details:

Debashis Acharya,
Primary Health Care Corporation (P.H.C.C), Qatar.

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Determining the Role of Unani Medicine in Management of Tinnitus (Taneen)| Chapter 2 | Issues and Developments in Medicine and Medical Research Vol.10

 Tinnitus is derived from the Latin word "tinnire," which means "to ring" or "jingle." Patients report hearing a drumming noise or sound in their ears without any external input. These sounds were described by patients as roaring, hissing, swishing, or clicking. Tinnitus is known as Taneen wa Dawi in the unani system, which implies ringing sounds in the ear or a state in which a person hears non-existent voices. "Taneen" denotes "tasht ki khankhnahat," according to Allama Nafees, in which sufferers hear non-existent sound regularly or occasionally. Tinnitus is caused by ghaleez akhlat wa riyah (waste material) being diverted from the brain to the ear, resulting in symptoms such as hunger, dryness, famine, and general weakness. Furthermore, many unani academics linked the symptoms of heaviness in the ear and head to tinnitus, an empty stomach, or starving noises in the ear, and general weakness. Tinnitus is treated with Ilaj-bil-Dawa (pharmacotherapy), Ilaj-bil-Ghiza (dietotherapy), Ilaj-bil-Tadabeer (regimental therapy), and Ilaj-bil-Yad (manual therapy/surgery) in the unani system of medicine. Treatments for tinnitus are extremely difficult to achieve using traditional methods. In this book chapter, we describe or explain a topic that is very useful in the treatment of tinnitus using the unani medical system.

Author(s) Details:

Abdul Nasir ,
Department of Ain, Uzn Anaf Wa Halaq (Eye & ENT), School of Unani Medical Education & Research, Jamia Hamdard (Deemed to be University), New Delhi, India.

Gazala Fatma,
 Department of Tahaffuzi Wa Samaji Tibb (Preventive and Social Medicine), School of Unani Medical Education & Research, Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi, India.

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Tinnitus: A Brief Review of Causes, Mechanism, and Treatments | Chapter 6 | Issues and Developments in Medicine and Medical Research Vol. 1

 Tinnitus is the sensation of hearing sound without an external source, which is often described as a "buzzing" or "ringing" in the ears. The purpose of this research is to examine the causes, mechanisms, and treatment options for tinnitus. Tinnitus is caused by hearing loss, somatosensory system malfunction, and lesions of the auditory brain. Serious underlying diseases are uncommon in most situations. Hearing loss is the most common reason. Tinnitus does not always accompany hearing loss, and hearing loss does not always accompany tinnitus. The first is addressed by the "inhibitory gating mechanism," while the latter is explained by the assumption that all tinnitus sufferers have some degree of hearing impairment that is not often discovered by regular audiological testing. Pharmacotherapy, education, counselling, cognitive behavioural therapy, and sound therapy are among recent popular treatments. Counseling should include information on the link between tinnitus and hearing loss, as well as lifestyle factors that might affect tinnitus management in both positive and negative ways. Symptomatic alleviation or the management of associated distress should be the therapeutic aims.

Author(S) Details

Byung In Han
Do Neurology Clinic, Daegu, South Korea.

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Tinnitus: A Brief Review of Causes, Mechanism, and Treatments | Chapter 6 | Recent Developments in Medicine and Medical Research Vol. 13

 Tinnitus is the sensation of hearing sound without an external source, which is often described as a "buzzing" or "ringing" in the ears. The purpose of this research is to examine the causes, mechanisms, and treatment options for tinnitus. Tinnitus is caused by hearing loss, somatosensory system malfunction, and lesions of the auditory brain. Serious underlying diseases are uncommon in most situations. Hearing loss is the most common reason. Tinnitus does not always accompany hearing loss, and hearing loss does not always accompany tinnitus. The first is addressed by the "inhibitory gating mechanism," while the latter is explained by the assumption that all tinnitus sufferers have some degree of hearing impairment that is not often discovered by regular audiological testing. Pharmacotherapy, education, counselling, cognitive behavioural therapy, and sound therapy are among recent popular treatments. Counseling should include information on the link between tinnitus and hearing loss, as well as lifestyle factors that might affect tinnitus management in both positive and negative ways. Symptomatic alleviation or the management of associated distress should be the therapeutic aims.

Author(S) Details

Byung In Han
Do Neurology Clinic, Daegu, South Korea.

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