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Tinnitus Loudness Matches at 1 kHz

Data Set 1: Tinnitus Data Registry, 1981 - 1994 Related Data Summaries

Overall Sample Number: 1630

Number of patients responding to this item: 1257sample subset.gif: When the sample size for the current analysis is substantially (more than 10%) smaller than the total number of patients in the database, this will appear to flag that fact.

Test Conditions:      
Test ear was contralateral to predominant tinnitus if tinnitus was lateralized; if
not lateralized, test ear was chosen arbitrarily.

TINNITUS LOUDNESS MATCHES AT 1 KHZ
Loudness Match (dB SL) N %
0 - 3 114 9.1
4 - 6 148 11.8
7 - 9 214 17.0
10 - 12 184 14.6
13 - 15 178 14.2
16 - 18 126 10.0
19 - 21 96 7.6
22 - 24 70 5.6
25 - 27 40 3.2
28 - 30 31 2.5
More than 30 56 4.5
Total* 1257 100.0
* Omits 373 patients from the early years of the Tinnitus Clinic who did not receive the test, or for whom test conditions were not yet standardized; omissions were unrelated to tinnitus loudness or to patients' hearing capabilities and are unlikely to have caused systematic bias.
Tinnitus Loudness Matches at 1 kHz
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