Bal Fatih, Kırış Muzaffer
Department of Psychology, Sakarya University, Sakarya 54187, Türkiye.
Department of Ear, Nose and Throat Diseases, Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University, Ankara 06010, Türkiye.
Brain Sci. 2024 Sep 13;14(9):918. doi: 10.3390/brainsci14090918.
This research aimed to investigate the effectiveness of the Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) method on chronic subjective tinnitus. The research was planned as an observational study. The study group comprises individuals who applied to the training and research hospital in Ankara between 2019 and 2020 and were aged between 15 and 60 years old. They were identified as having tinnitus. The study samples were determined as 36 participants selected through purposeful sampling. The samples of the 36 participants included in the study. 12 were assigned to the 1st Group EMDR and Masking Group, 12 to the 2nd Group Masking and EMDR Group, and 12 to the 3rd Control Group. The study's dependent variable was the tinnitus levels of the participants, and the independent variable was EMDR and the Masking method. The dependent variable data of the study was collected with the Visual Analog Scale and Tinnitus Handicap Inventory (THI). EMDR and Masking methods used as independent variables in the study were conducted in eight sessions for two months. As a result of the Wilcoxon Sign test used to determine whether the EMDR Method is effective on tinnitus severity level, the difference between tinnitus severity level pretest and post-test median scores of tinnitus patients was found to be statistically significant. Our research findings show that the EMDR method reduces and improves chronic subjective tinnitus, and further studies with a larger sample size could confirm our results.
本研究旨在探讨眼动脱敏再处理（EMDR）方法对慢性主观性耳鸣的有效性。该研究计划为一项观察性研究。研究组包括2019年至2020年间申请安卡拉培训与研究医院且年龄在15至60岁之间的个体。他们被确诊患有耳鸣。研究样本通过目的抽样确定为36名参与者。纳入研究的36名参与者样本中，12人被分配到第一组（EMDR与掩蔽组），12人被分配到第二组（掩蔽与EMDR组），12人被分配到第三组（对照组）。该研究的因变量是参与者的耳鸣水平，自变量是EMDR和掩蔽方法。研究的因变量数据通过视觉模拟量表和耳鸣障碍量表（THI）收集。研究中用作自变量的EMDR和掩蔽方法在两个月内分八次进行。用于确定EMDR方法对耳鸣严重程度水平是否有效的威尔科克森符号检验结果显示，耳鸣患者测试前和测试后耳鸣严重程度中位数得分之间的差异具有统计学意义。我们的研究结果表明，EMDR方法可减轻并改善慢性主观性耳鸣，更大样本量的进一步研究可能会证实我们的结果。
