Tinnitus: Distinguishing between subjectively perceived loudness and tinnitus-related distress

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Wallhäusser Franke, Elisabeth ^a   Brade, Joachim ^a   Balkenhol, Tobias ^a   D'Amelio, Roberto ^a,b   Seegmüller, Andrea ^a   Delb, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FEMALE; HEARING; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; LOUDNESS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; ONSET AGE; PSYCHOMETRY; PSYCHOSOMATIC DISORDER; SELF REPORT; SLEEP QUALITY; SYMPTOM; TINNITUS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TINNITUS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84859991773     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0034583     Document Type: Article

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