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Efficacy of Transcutaneous Vagus Nerve Stimulation Paired With Tailor-Made Notched Music Therapy Versus Tailor-made Notched Music Training for Chronic Subjective Tinnitus
Sponsor: Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University
Summary
This clinical study is a prospective, multicenter, randomized, controlled, double-blind clinical study. Sun Yat Sen Memorial Hospital of Sun Yat sen University was the central unit, and Nanjing First Hospital, Sun Yat Sen people's Hospital, Guanfzhou Panyu central Hospital and Zhuhai integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine hospital were the cooperative units. In this study, 388 patients with chronic subjective tinnitus were recruited. In view of chronic subjective tinnitus, a common ear disease, the study gave the patients three months of treatment with transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation paired with tailor-made notched music therapy or tailor-made notched music training alone. By comparing the changes of subjective scale scores related to tinnitus before and after treatment in patients receiving two different therapies, such as THI, VAS, BAI, BDI, PSQI, to evaluate the efficacy of the two therapies, so as to judge whether transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation paired with tailor-made notched music therapy is better than tailor-made notched music training alone. In addition, the study will continue to follow up the patients after the treatment for one year to observe the difference in the long-term sustained efficacy of the two therapies. This clinical study will also evaluate the two therapies from the perspective of compliance and safety, and explore the factors that affect the efficacy of the two therapies.
Official title: Efficacy of Transcutaneous Vagus Nerve Stimulation Paired With Tailor-Made Notched Music Therapy Versus Tailor-made Notched Music Training for Chronic Subjective Tinnitus: A Multicenter, Randomized, Double-blind, Controlled Clinical Trial
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
18 Years - 60 Years
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
388
Start Date
2023-11-23
Completion Date
2026-09-01
Last Updated
2023-11-27
Healthy Volunteers
No
Conditions
Interventions
Transcutaneous Vagus Nerve Stimulation Paired with Tailor-Made Notched Music Therapy
The pulse frequency of vagus nerve stimulation is 25 Hz, the pulse width is 200 US, and the intensity is 1-10 mA. Tailor-made notched music is produced by filtering a frequency band of 1/2 octave width centered at the individual tinnitus frequency. When two sides of tinnitus frequencies are different, each side of music are filtered respectively, according to the different tinnitus frequency. When only have unilateral tinnitus or bilateral tinnitus in the same central frequency, both sides of music are filtered with the same tinnitus frequency. The tVNS and TMNM begin at the same time during treatment.
Tailor-made Notched Music Training
Tailor-made notched music is produced by filtering a frequency band of 1/2 octave width centered at the individual tinnitus frequency. When two sides of tinnitus frequencies are different, each side of music are filtered respectively, according to the different tinnitus frequency. When only have unilateral tinnitus or bilateral tinnitus in the same central frequency, both sides of music are filtered with the same tinnitus frequency. At the beginning of TMNMT, 10 seconds sham vagus nerve stimulation is output, whose parameters are as same as experimental group.