Cognitive-behaviour therapy for tinnitus: dismantling study to maximise treatment efficacy

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/209568

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Tinnitus (ringing in the ears) is a problem which affects a large number of people and for which there is no generally successful medical treatment. People are usually told that they will have to learn to live with the problem. Cognitive-behaviour therapy (CBT) has emerged as the principle means of helping people to cope with tinnitus. The proposed study aims to: (a) enhance the efficacy of CBT interventions for tinnitus, (b) identify the active components of CBT that mediate treatment gains, and (c) specify the mechanisms by which change occurs. The study is designed to dismantle the multi-component CBT tinnitus management protocol to investigate the relative efficacy of the individual components of treatment. The need to identify the types of psychological therapies which work best for potentially different kinds of tinnitus patients is important on both practical and theoretical grounds. Identifying and including only those components of treatment that are beneficial, and eliminating those that are not, is crucial to matching specific treatments to specific patients, which represents a major endeavour in contemporary psychotherapy research. Whether there are individual differences in response to the different components of the treatment or whether there is a single most potent component is of considerable theoretical interest. It is expected that subjects who receive the full treatment will display the largest immediate and long-term gains. Treatments which involve cognitive restructuring will produce better effects than those that do not. This project will contribute to enhanced functioning among tinnitus patients and increase the proportion of those who can benefit from empirically supported therapies.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2002

End Date: 01-01-2004

Funding Scheme: NHMRC Project Grants

Funding Amount: $230,220.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Financial economics

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Other Keywords

chronic disorders | clinical psychology | cognitive- behaviour | health outcomes | hearing | tinnitus

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