Tinnitus Treatment by Structured Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial of Efficacy and Safety of Individual Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) Within the Setting of the Structured Therapy Program sTCP (Structured Tinnitus Care Program) in Patients With Tinnitus Aurium

Test of hypothesis that in contrast to non-treatment tinnitus specific cognitive behavioral therapy intervention procedures that are manualized and structured within the disease management program TCP are effective.

Intervention:

Individual application of structured and tinnitus specific cognitive behavioral therapy intervention procedures in the clinical setting of the structured therapy program "tinnitus care program (TCP)"

Duration of intervention per patient: 1-15 treatment sessions plus self treatment up to 16 weeks

Control intervention: Waiting group (16 weeks)

Key Inclusion Criteria:

• Persistent and stable tinnitus of more than 11 weeks
• Gap between audiometric tinnitus matching and subjective tinnitus loudness rating scale

Key Exclusion Criteria:

• Psychiatric or neurological comorbidity
• Tinnitus as concomitant symptom of an otherwise treatable disease
• Drug treatment for tinnitus 24 hrs. prior or during therapy