To investigate the relationships between anxiety, depression, and insomnia and tinnitus severity among high-functioning employed adults, stratified by age and gender, and to describe age- and gender-specific patterns of prevalence and symptom burden in order to support a biopsychosocial framework for understanding tinnitus onset, progression, and clinical management.
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Discussion
Signed responses from readers of the wire.
Audiologists should routinely screen working-age tinnitus patients for anxiety, depression, and insomnia, and interpret results with awareness that age and sex influence these comorbidities.
Identifying how demographic factors moderate the mental health burden of tinnitus can help clinicians tailor counseling and referral pathways for different patient subgroups.
- 01Anxiety, depression, and insomnia are significantly associated with tinnitus severity in employed adults.
- 02Age group and sex moderate the strength of these psychological associations.
- 03Study focuses on a high-functioning, employed population, limiting generalizability.
- 04Findings support integrated mental health screening in tinnitus management.
- 05Sex-stratified and age-stratified analyses add nuance beyond prior population-level studies.
Depression and anxiety are significantly associated with tinnitus severity in high-functioning employed adults.
studypartially supportedThe relationship between tinnitus severity and psychological comorbidities differs by age group and sex.
studypartially supported- PMID
- 42131799
- DOI
- 10.1155/da/9170627.
- Journal
- Disability and Rehabilitation: Audiology
- Publication type
- research_article
- Evidence level
- 3
- Population
- High-functioning employed adults with tinnitus, stratified by age group and sex
- Intervention
- Assessment of anxiety, depression, and insomnia in relation to tinnitus severity
Primary outcomes
Tinnitus severity scores; Anxiety and depression measures; Insomnia severity index scores