Group or individual tinnitus therapy: What matters to participants?

Audiological Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 110-116

  Thompson, Patricia ^a   Pryce, Helen ^b   Refaie, El ^b  

^a Princess of Wales Hospital   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coping; Social comparison; Tinnitus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDIOGRAPHY; AUDIOLOGY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COPING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GROUNDED THEORY; GROUP THERAPY; HEARING AID; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LEISURE; MALE; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOUND; TINNITUS;

EID: 80052067175     PISSN: 1651386X     EISSN: 16513835     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/1651386X.2011.604470     Document Type: Article

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