TY - JOUR T1 - Prescription of hearing-aid output for tinnitus relief. AU - Shekhawat,Giriraj Singh, AU - Searchfield,Grant D, AU - Kobayashi,Kei, AU - Stinear,Cathy M, Y1 - 2013/07/17/ PY - 2013/7/18/entrez PY - 2013/7/19/pubmed PY - 2014/3/19/medline SP - 617 EP - 25 JF - International journal of audiology JO - Int J Audiol VL - 52 IS - 9 N2 - OBJECTIVE: Tinnitus is a perceived sound that cannot be attributed to an external source. This study attempts to identify a prescription of amplification that is optimized as a first-fit setting for tinnitus relief. DESIGN: Participants compared the effect of high frequency amplification on their tinnitus. Stimuli were 13 speech files with different amounts of high frequency amplification (three cut-off frequencies and four gain settings) to simulate the effects of a change in DSL(I/O) v5.0 prescription in the high frequencies. STUDY SAMPLE: Twenty-five participants with chronic tinnitus participated in the study. RESULTS: A 6-dB reduction to prescribed gain at 2 kHz emerged as the most preferred output (26.47% participants) to interfere with participants' tinnitus. Overall, 70.58% of the participants' preferred a 3 to 6 dB reduction in output while 29.42% preferred a similar increase across all cut-off frequencies. A trend was observed in which the higher the tinnitus pitch the more similar the preferred output to DSL(I/O) v5.0. CONCLUSION: DSL(I/O) v5.0 appears to be a good starting point for prescription of hearing-aid output for tinnitus management. Long-term benefits of different prescriptions for tinnitus still need to be ascertained. SN - 1708-8186 UR - https://www.unboundmedicine.com/medline/citation/23859059/Prescription_of_hearing_aid_output_for_tinnitus_relief_ L2 - https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.3109/14992027.2013.799787 DB - PRIME DP - Unbound Medicine ER -