Abstract
Tinnitus was influenced by psychic factors and its treatment was evaluated in 135 patients with persistent tinnitus (111 had perceptive hearing loss and 24 did not). The parameters evaluated were “tenacity to the tinnitus” and “satisfaction to the improvement”.
Twenty-five of 135 patients had tinnitus only by misapprehension due to a certain psychic reaction. In these cases, it was unable to verify the presence of tinnitus by any kind of the test for tinnitus.
The degree of the tenacity to tinnitus was different in each case, regardless of the sensation level of tinnitus and it had various influences on the satisfactions to the improvement of medications. In the patients with severe tenacity, they felt either full or no the satisfactions, and in the patients with moderate tenacity, various degree of the satisfactions were obtained in cases of slight improvement, while the satisfaction and the improvement by treatment were parallel in the patients with slight tenacity.
Thus, these observations strongly suggests that it is very important to consider various psychic factors especially the tenacity when one treats the patients with tinnitus.
