* Department of Psychology, Leeds Trinity University , Leeds , UK.
Int J Audiol. 2014 Feb;53(2):88-93. doi: 10.3109/14992027.2013.846481. Epub 2013 Nov 5.
The aim of the study was to investigate the possible impact of tinnitus on the performance of challenging cognitive tasks.
Participants completed the hospital anxiety and depression scale and completed two cognitive tasks: the Vienna determination task and a variant of the Stroop paradigm. In addition, tinnitus sufferers completed the subjective tinnitus severity scale.
Thirty-three tinnitus sufferers and 33 controls took part in the study (n = 66).
Tinnitus sufferers were no more depressed nor anxious than controls, but they performed less well on both cognitive tasks.
Possible causes and implications of these performance decrements are discussed, with particular attention given to the possibility that subjective distress is an important moderating factor in tinnitus sufferers.
研究的目的是调查耳鸣对挑战性认知任务表现的可能影响。
参与者完成医院焦虑和抑郁量表，并完成两项认知任务：维也纳决策任务和斯特鲁普范式的变体。此外，耳鸣患者完成了耳鸣严重程度主观量表。
33 名耳鸣患者和 33 名对照者参与了这项研究（n = 66）。
耳鸣患者的抑郁和焦虑程度不比对照组高，但他们在两项认知任务上的表现都较差。
讨论了这些表现下降的可能原因和影响，特别关注主观困扰作为耳鸣患者的一个重要调节因素的可能性。
