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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Neurosci.
Sec. Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience
Volume 19 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fnins.2025.1466354
This article is part of the Research TopicBridging the Gap Between the Different Pillars of Tinnitus ResearchView all 7 articles
Combining the Unequal Variance Signal Detection Model with the Health Believe Model to Optimize Shared Decision Making in Tinnitus Patients: Part 2 -Patient Profiling
Provisionally accepted
Zsófia Zs Lehóczky1,2
Adriana L Smit1,2
Sarah Kaldenbach3
Arnold Lieftink1,2
Huib Versnel1,2
Robert J Stokroos1,2
Alexander E Hoetink1,2*- 1University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands, Netherlands
- 2Brain Center, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands, Netherlands
- 3Dutch Foundation for the Deaf and Hearing Impaired Child (NSDSK), Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Introduction: Tinnitus affects approximately 14% of the population. Its symptomatology is versatile, ranging from mild annoyance to anxiety and depression. Current multidisciplinary treatments (psychological, audiological, and combinations) focus on impact reduction and acceptance. Shared Decision Making (SDM) promotes patients and health care professionals making treatment choices together based on the best available evidence. In the case of professional equipoise (no clear clinical evidence for superiority of a treatment), knowledge about individual factors influencing the outcome of patient decisions can be of utmost importance in informing the SDM process.
Keywords: Tinnitus, Psychophysics, shared decision making, Sound therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, Hearing Loss, Signal detection theory, Health believe Model
Received: 17 Jul 2024; Accepted: 10 Apr 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Lehóczky, Smit, Kaldenbach, Lieftink, Versnel, Stokroos and Hoetink. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Alexander E Hoetink, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, 3584, Netherlands, Netherlands
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