NCT02774122

Cochleural Alternating Acoustic Beam Therapy (CAABT) Versus Masking Intervention for Tinnitus

Cochleural Alternating Acoustic Beam Therapy Versus Masking Intervention for Tinnitus: A Randomised Controlled Trial

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 60 (actual)
• Sponsor: Beijing Friendship Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 80 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study is to compare the effectiveness of CAABT and masking therapy in the management of subjective tinnitus in adults.Half of participants will receive CAABT, while the other half will receive masking therapy.

Detailed description

Masking intervention was a standard monophone tinnitus masking therapy. It was usually a narrow-band noise matched with tinnitus frequency (Tf). CAABT was an innovative tinnitus intervention which based on neural science and cochlear plastic research and aimed to reprogram the central auditory system to neutralize the discordant responses of the dysfunctioning cochlea via acoustic beaming stimuli.

Conditions

• Tinnitus, Subjective

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	CAABT	CAABT was an innovative tinnitus intervention which based on neural science and cochlear plastic research and aimed to reprogram the central auditory system to neutralize the discordant responses of the dysfunctioning cochlea via acoustic beaming stimuli.
DEVICE	masking therapy	Masking intervention was a standard monophone tinnitus masking therapy.

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-04-01
• Primary completion: 2018-08-01
• Completion: 2018-10-01
• First posted: 2016-05-17
• Last updated: 2018-01-23

Locations

1 site across 1 country: China