Correlates of Coping in Individuals with Tinnitus

Tinnitus is commonly defined as an aberrant 
perception of sound without external stimulus. It’s a chronic 
condition with consequences on the QOL. The coping strategies used 
were not always effective and coping was identified as a predictor of 
QOL in individuals with tinnitus, which reinforces the idea that in 
health the use of effective coping styles should be promoted. This 
work intend to verify relations between coping strategies assessed by 
BriefCope in subjects with tinnitus and variables such as gender, age 
and severity of tinnitus measured by THI and the Visual Analogue 
Scale and also hearing and hyperacusis. The results indicate that there 
are any statistically significant relationships between the variables 
assessed in relation to the results of BriefCope except in the Visual 
Analogue Scale.These results, indicating no relationship between 
almost all variables, reinforce the need for further study of coping 
strategies use by these patients.