NCT01845155

Neuro-Music-Therapy for Patients With Chronic Tinnitus - a Controlled Clinical Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 300 (actual)
• Sponsor: German Center for Music Therapy Research · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

BACKGROUND: Tinnitus is a nonspecific symptom of hearing disorder characterized by the sensation of buzzing, ringing, clicking, pulsations, and other noises in the ear. Despite a variety of treatments, many patients with chronic tinnitus ask for more active ways in coping with their tinnitus. Gold standard treatment in chronic tinnitus is a comprehensive directive counseling explaining the underlying mechanisms leading to the tinnitus percept. Therefore a neuro-music therapeutic treatment based on a bio-psycho-social framework was developed and compared to a counselling-only control group. INTERVENTION: two standardized protocols for tinnitus therapy were defined ("neuro-music therapy" vs. "counselling")

Conditions

• Tinnitus

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Neuro-Music-Therapy according to the Heidelberg Model	The neuro-music therapy according to the Heidelberg Model for tinnitus is a manualized short term music therapeutic treatment lasting for nine consecutive 50-minutes sessions of individualized therapy. Therapy takes place on five consecutive days (from Monday to Friday) with two therapy sessions per day. It comprises both active and receptive forms of music therapy. The interventions are structured into the following modules Directive Counseling, Resonance Training, Neuroauditive Cortex Training, Tinnitus Reconditioning. For more details on the music therapy see Argstatter et al. 2012
BEHAVIORAL	Counselling	Duration: single session of 50 min Tinnitus specific procedures: The counseling group receives the identical counselling procedure as the music therapy group.

Timeline

• Start date: 2006-03-01
• Primary completion: 2013-01-01
• Completion: 2013-02-01
• First posted: 2013-05-03
• Last updated: 2014-03-17
• Results posted: 2013-11-18

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Germany