Status:
COMPLETED
Neuro-Music-Therapy for Patients With Chronic Tinnitus - a Controlled Clinical Trial
Lead Sponsor:
German Center for Music Therapy Research
Conditions:
Tinnitus
Eligibility:
All Genders
18+ years
Phase:
NA
Brief 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...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Clinical diagnosis of chronic tinnitus persisting for a minimum of 6 month
- Adults, aged 18 or over
- Patients are able to understand, read and speak German fluently
- Patients are able to give written informed consent
- tinnitus with determinable centre frequency
Exclusion
- Tinnitus related to anatomic lesions of the ear, to retrocochlear lesions or to cochlear implantation
- Tinnitus is concomitant symptom of a known systemic disease (such as Menière's Disease, vestibular schwannoma, endolymphatic hydrops)
- Status following craniocerebral trauma, cervicogenic or stomatognathic tinnitus
- Tinnitus is neither noisiform nor tonal (cricking, clacking, rumbling) or has different sound components or is pulsatile, intermittent or non-persistent
- Severe hearing impairment (greater than 50 decibel hearing loss (dB HL) in the region of the centre tinnitus frequency)
- Severe hyperacusis
- One or two sided deafness
- Clinical diagnosis of severe mental disorder or psychiatric or neurological disease (psychosis, epilepsy, Parkinsons's disease, dementia, alcohol or drug abuse)
- History of severe ischemic disorder (previous stoke, previous heart attack, peripheral arterial occlusion disease)
- Inability to discontinue drugs known to be associated with tinnitus (high-dose aspirin, quinidine, aminoglycosides) or psychotropic medication prior to entry into the study
- Patients are not able to understand, read and speak German fluently
- Patients are not able to give written informed consent
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
March 1 2006
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
February 1 2013
Estimated Enrollment :
300 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT01845155
Start Date
March 1 2006
End Date
February 1 2013
Last Update
March 17 2014
Active Locations (1)
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German Center for Music Therapy Research
Heidelberg, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany, 69123