Losing silence, gaining acceptance: a qualitative exploration of the role of thoughts in adult patients with subjective tinnitus

Helen Pryce; Katie Chilvers

doi:10.1080/14992027.2018.1500041

Losing silence, gaining acceptance: a qualitative exploration of the role of thoughts in adult patients with subjective tinnitus

Helen Pryce
, Katie Chilvers

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Abstract

Objective: Tinnitus is one of the most common somatic symptoms to affect humanity. Prevalence rates in adult populations range from 8.2 to 20.1%. Our aim was to understand the beliefs and interpretations of tinnitus and the experience of living with it.

Design: An in depth grounded theory interview study. Grounded theory is an inductive approach to developing theory.

Sample: Thirteen contrasting people with tinnitus who had sought help from clinical services in England.

Results: We identified that the thinking patterns that people held around their tinnitus impacted how they experienced it. A core category emerged from the data, “sense making”. Around “sense making” eight other themes operated. Results are discussed in relation to the literature on tinnitus acceptance and beliefs.

Conclusions: The aim of interventions is to foster understanding and enhance perceptions of control, which may minimise the emotional impact of tinnitus and reduce the perceived severity of consequences.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	801-808
Journal	International Journal of Audiology
Volume	57
Issue number	11
Early online date	8 Oct 2018
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/14992027.2018.1500041
Publication status	Published - 8 Oct 2018

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Copyright ©2018 British Society of Audiology, International Society of Audiology, and Nordic Audiological Society. Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.

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Copyright © 2018 British Society of Audiology, International Society of Audiology, and Nordic Audiological Society. Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.
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