Detalhes bibliográficos
| Ano de defesa: |
2018 |
| Autor(a) principal: |
Cruz, Ana Carolina Almendra
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| Orientador(a): |
Santos, Teresa Maria Momensohn dos |
| Banca de defesa: |
Não Informado pela instituição |
| Tipo de documento: |
Tese
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| Tipo de acesso: |
Acesso aberto |
| Idioma: |
por |
| Instituição de defesa: |
Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
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| Programa de Pós-Graduação: |
Programa de Estudos Pós-Graduados em Fonoaudiologia
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| Departamento: |
Faculdade de Ciências Humanas e da Saúde
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| País: |
Brasil
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| Área do conhecimento CNPq: |
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| Link de acesso: |
https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/20937
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Resumo: |
Introduction: Tinnitus is a symptom characterized by sound sensations originated without any external sound stimulus. It is usually associated with hearing loss. Objective: to describe the socio-demographic and psychoacoustic characteristics of adult patients with tinnitus. Method: Retrospective study of 581 medical records of patients with tinnitus. Data collected: sex, age, occupation, presence of hearing loss, location, duration and type of tinnitus, responses to acuphenometry, minimum level of masking (MML) and Analog-Visual Scale (VAS) 12. Results: Data showed that 62.31% were male and 37.69% female. 11.53% had a profession related to the heath sector, the rest were distributed almost equally among the other categories. The age distribution ranged from 17 to 88 years. 50,95% of the individuals have tinnitus in both ears, 6.37% in the head, 24.78% in the left ear and 17.90% in the right ear. Most have constant tinnitus (61.62%). Most patients did not have hearing loss. Among patients with hearing loss, more than 94% have bilateral, mild or moderate hearing loss. The duration of tinnitus has a distribution from 1 to 720 months. In the VAS the mean value was 6.05 and in the TBF-12 was 6.41. The mean values of Acufenometria were 6.3dBLS and MML 15.70 dBLS in the right ear and 14.28 dBLS in the left ear. Conclusion: Tinnitus affects men more often than women, regardless of the profession they have. The most referred site was both ears, constant and whistle type |
