NCT01927991

Internet-based Self-help for Tinnitus: The Role of Support

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 112 (actual)
• Sponsor: Philipps University Marburg · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Internet-based cognitive behavioural self-help (iCBT) has become increasingly popular to provide psychotherapy. For several psychological and psychosomatic disorders, treatment efficacy was shown. Previously, iCBT has also been applied to patients suffering from tinnitus and results show significant and long-term stable improvements in tinnitus distress. However, the role of therapeutic support in iCBT has not been thoroughly investigated. Previous results suggest that iCBT without therapeutic support is less effective and leads to higher dropout rates than therapist-guided iCBT. The aim of the randomized controlled trial is thus to investigate the role of therapeutic support in an iCBT for tinnitus sufferers.

Conditions

• Tinnitus

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	iCBT (internet-based, cognitive-behavioural therapy)	The intervention is based on cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) and is offered as a self-help and provided over the internet. Participants work on their own on different modules which give information about tinnitus and the associated symptoms and provide instructions for practical exercises.

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-09-01
• Primary completion: 2013-12-01
• Completion: 2014-05-01
• First posted: 2013-08-23
• Last updated: 2015-04-28

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Germany