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Sleep Complaints in Elderly Tinnitus Patients: A Controlled Study.
1École dʼorthophonie et dʼaudiologie, Centre de recherche en neuropsychologie et en cognition, Université de Montréal; and 2Département de Psychologie, Centre de recherche en neuropsychologie et en cognition, Université de Montréal; 3Centre de recherche, Institut universitaire de gériatrie de Montréal; and 4Centre dʼétude du sommeil et des rythmes biologiques, Hôpital du Sacré-Coeur de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
OBJECTIVES: Sleep difficulties are among the most frequent complaints associated with tinnitus. Yet most studies reporting on this problem are rather succinct, and all of them lack proper age- and health-matched control subjects.
DESIGN: The present study reports on 102 participants (51 with and 51 without tinnitus), assessed with the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI), the Beck-II depression inventory, a hyperacusis questionnaire, and a tinnitus-reaction questionnaire (tinnitus group only). Participants were matched for health and relevant socioeconomic factors.
RESULTS: Results show that tinnitus patients have greater self-reported sleep difficulties compared with control subjects, specifically sleep efficiency and sleep quality, and that high tinnitus-related distress is associated with greater sleep disturbance.
CONCLUSIONS: Rather than hearing loss, sleep complaints in this population are mainly explained by hyperacusis, a hallmark of tinnitus, and to a lesser extent by subclinical depressive symptoms.
PMID: 17804979 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
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