NCT01205919

Internet-based Guided Self-help for Chronic Tinnitus

Efficacy of an Internet-based Guided Self-help Training for Chronic Tinnitus: A Randomized Controlled Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 124 (actual)
• Sponsor: Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine the efficacy of a cognitive behavioral guided self-help training provided via the internet on tinnitus distress in a German sample.

Detailed description

Long waiting periods and the deficiency of outpatient therapies stimulated the development of internet-based interventions for a variety of mental disorders during the last years. A Swedish research group developed an internet-based self-help training for patients with chronic tinnitus showing promising results (Andersson et al., 2002; Kaldo et al., 2007; Kaldo et al., 2008). This self-help training was now adapted for German-speaking patients. The present study evaluates the efficacy of this treatment in a randomized controlled trial conducted in Germany. Further aims are a process evaluation of the treatment and the identification of predictors of efficacy.

Conditions

• Tinnitus

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Internet-based guided self-help for tinnitus	Internet-based guided self-help for tinnitus: provided via Internet, duration of 10 weeks
OTHER	Internet discussion forum	Tinnitus-specific internet discussion forum over 10 weeks (no therapeutic intervention)

Timeline

• Start date: 2010-05-01
• Primary completion: 2010-10-01
• Completion: 2011-10-01
• First posted: 2010-09-21
• Last updated: 2014-04-03

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Sweden