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Performance of the Tinnitus Functional Index as a diagnostic instrument in a UK clinical population (2017)
Journal Article
Fackrell, K., Hall, D. A., Barry, J. G., & Hoare, D. J. (2018). Performance of the Tinnitus Functional Index as a diagnostic instrument in a UK clinical population. Hearing Research, 358, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heares.2017.10.016

Objectives: The Tinnitus Functional Index (TFI) has been optimised as a diagnostic tool for quantifying the functional impact of tinnitus in US veteran and civilian groups. However, the TFI has not been evaluated for use in other English-speaking cl... Read More about Performance of the Tinnitus Functional Index as a diagnostic instrument in a UK clinical population.

Designing clinical trials for assessing the effectiveness of interventions for tinnitus (2017)
Journal Article
Hall, D. A. (2017). Designing clinical trials for assessing the effectiveness of interventions for tinnitus. Trends in Hearing, 21, https://doi.org/10.1177/2331216517736689

In the face of finite resources, allocations of research and healthcare funding are dependent upon high-quality evidence. Historically, tinnitus has been the poor cousin of hearing science, with low-quality clinical research providing unreliable esti... Read More about Designing clinical trials for assessing the effectiveness of interventions for tinnitus.

Bi-modal stimulation in the treatment of tinnitus: a study protocol for an exploratory trial to optimise stimulation parameters and patient subtyping (2017)
Journal Article
D’Arcy, S., Hamilton, C., Hughes, S., Hall, D. A., Vanneste, S., Langguth, B., & Conlon, B. (in press). Bi-modal stimulation in the treatment of tinnitus: a study protocol for an exploratory trial to optimise stimulation parameters and patient subtyping. BMJ Open, 7, Article e018465. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2017-018465

Introduction: Tinnitus is the perception of sound in the absence of a corresponding external acoustic stimulus. Bi-modal neuromodulation is emerging as a promising treatment for this condition. The main objectives of this study are to investigate the... Read More about Bi-modal stimulation in the treatment of tinnitus: a study protocol for an exploratory trial to optimise stimulation parameters and patient subtyping.

Effects of noise exposure on young adults with normal audiograms II: Behavioral measures (2017)
Journal Article
Prendergast, G., Millman, R. E., Guest, H., Munro, K. J., Kluk, K., Dewey, R. S., …Plack, C. J. (2017). Effects of noise exposure on young adults with normal audiograms II: Behavioral measures. Hearing Research, 356, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heares.2017.10.007

An estimate of lifetime noise exposure was used as the primary predictor of performance on a range of behavioral tasks: frequency and intensity difference limens, amplitude modulation detection, interaural phase discrimination, the digit triplet spee... Read More about Effects of noise exposure on young adults with normal audiograms II: Behavioral measures.

A good practice guide for translating and adapting hearing-related questionnaires for different languages and cultures (2017)
Journal Article
Hall, D. A., Domingo, S. Z., Hamdache, L. Z., Manchaiah, V., Thammaiah, S., Evans, C., & Wong, L. (2018). A good practice guide for translating and adapting hearing-related questionnaires for different languages and cultures. International Journal of Audiology, 57(3), 161-175. https://doi.org/10.1080/14992027.2017.1393565

Objectives: To raise awareness and propose a good practice guide for translating and adapting any hearing-related questionnaire to be used for comparisons across populations divided by language or culture, and to encourage investigators to publish de... Read More about A good practice guide for translating and adapting hearing-related questionnaires for different languages and cultures.

A data-driven synthesis of research evidence for domains of hearing loss, as reported by adults with hearing loss and their communication partners (2017)
Journal Article
Vas, V., Akeroyd, M. A., & Hall, D. A. (in press). A data-driven synthesis of research evidence for domains of hearing loss, as reported by adults with hearing loss and their communication partners. Trends in Hearing, 21, https://doi.org/10.1177/2331216517734088

A number of assessment tools exist to evaluate the impact of hearing loss, with little consensus among researchers as to either preference or psychometric adequacy. The item content of hearing loss assessment tools should seek to capture the impact o... Read More about A data-driven synthesis of research evidence for domains of hearing loss, as reported by adults with hearing loss and their communication partners.

Patients’ and Clinicians’ Views of the Psychological Components of Tinnitus Treatment That Could Inform Audiologists’ Usual Care: A Delphi Survey (2017)
Journal Article
Thompson, D. M., Taylor, J. A., Hall, D. A., Walker, D., McMurran, M., Casey, A., …Hoare, D. J. (2018). Patients’ and Clinicians’ Views of the Psychological Components of Tinnitus Treatment That Could Inform Audiologists’ Usual Care: A Delphi Survey. Ear and Hearing, 39(2), 367-377. https://doi.org/10.1097/aud.0000000000000492

Background Tinnitus is a phantom auditory sensation typified by subjective reports of a ringing or buzzing noise, and is associated with reduced quality of life and functional health status. Psychological therapies delivered by psychologists have be... Read More about Patients’ and Clinicians’ Views of the Psychological Components of Tinnitus Treatment That Could Inform Audiologists’ Usual Care: A Delphi Survey.

How to choose between measures of tinnitus loudness for clinical research?: a report on the reliability and validity of an investigator-administered test and a patient-reported measure using baseline data collected in a phase IIa drug trial (2017)
Journal Article
Hall, D. A., Mehta, R., & Fackrell, K. L. (2017). How to choose between measures of tinnitus loudness for clinical research?: a report on the reliability and validity of an investigator-administered test and a patient-reported measure using baseline data collected in a phase IIa drug trial. American Journal of Audiology, 26, https://doi.org/10.1044/2017_AJA-16-0129

Purpose: Loudness is a major auditory dimension of tinnitus, and is used to diagnose severity, counsel patients or as a measure of clinical efficacy in audiological research. There is no standard test for tinnitus loudness, but matching and rating me... Read More about How to choose between measures of tinnitus loudness for clinical research?: a report on the reliability and validity of an investigator-administered test and a patient-reported measure using baseline data collected in a phase IIa drug trial.

Core Outcome Domains for early phase clinical trials of sound-, psychology-, and pharmacology-based interventions to manage chronic subjective tinnitus in adults: The COMIT'ID study protocol for using a Delphi process and face-to-face meetings to establish consensus (2017)
Journal Article
Fackrell, K., Smith, H., Colley, V., Thacker, B., Horobin, A. J., Haider, H., …Hall, D. A. (2017). Core Outcome Domains for early phase clinical trials of sound-, psychology-, and pharmacology-based interventions to manage chronic subjective tinnitus in adults: The COMIT'ID study protocol for using a Delphi process and face-to-face meetings to establish consensus. Trials, 18(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-017-2123-0

© 2017 The Author(s). Background: The reporting of outcomes in clinical trials of subjective tinnitus indicates that many different tinnitus-related complaints are of interest to investigators, from perceptual attributes of the sound (e.g. loudness)... Read More about Core Outcome Domains for early phase clinical trials of sound-, psychology-, and pharmacology-based interventions to manage chronic subjective tinnitus in adults: The COMIT'ID study protocol for using a Delphi process and face-to-face meetings to establish consensus.

Outcome measures associated with perceived stress (2017)
Book Chapter
Hall, D. A. (2017). Outcome measures associated with perceived stress. In A. Szczepek, & B. Mazurek (Eds.), Tinnitus and stress: an interdisciplinary companion for healthcare professionals (173-200). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58397-6

We tend to think of situations in life as stressful when they are unpredictable, uncontrollable or overloading. Stress is a very personal experience. Perceived stress is a reflection of how such external stressful events and everyday hassles are ‘fil... Read More about Outcome measures associated with perceived stress.

A psychologically informed, audiologist-delivered, manualised intervention for tinnitus: protocol for a randomised controlled feasibility trial (Tin Man study) (2017)
Journal Article
Taylor, J. A., Hall, D. A., Walker, D., McMurran, M., Casey, A., Stockdale, D., …Hoare, D. J. (2017). A psychologically informed, audiologist-delivered, manualised intervention for tinnitus: protocol for a randomised controlled feasibility trial (Tin Man study). Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 3(1), Article 24. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40814-017-0137-8

Background Chronic tinnitus is a common incurable condition often associated with depression, anxiety, insomnia and reduced quality of life. Within National Health Service (NHS) audiology in the United Kingdom (UK), no standard protocol currently... Read More about A psychologically informed, audiologist-delivered, manualised intervention for tinnitus: protocol for a randomised controlled feasibility trial (Tin Man study).

The natural history of subjective tinnitus in adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis of ‘no-intervention’ periods in controlled trials (2017)
Journal Article
Phillips, J., McFerran, D., Hall, D. A., & Hoare, D. J. (2018). The natural history of subjective tinnitus in adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis of ‘no-intervention’ periods in controlled trials. Laryngoscope, 128(1), https://doi.org/10.1002/lary.26607

Objectives Tinnitus is a prevalent condition, but little has been published regarding the natural history of the condition. One technique for evaluating the long-term progression of the disease is to examine what happens to participants in the no-... Read More about The natural history of subjective tinnitus in adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis of ‘no-intervention’ periods in controlled trials.

Positive and negative thinking in tinnitus: factor structure of the Tinnitus Cognitions Questionnaire. (2017)
Journal Article
Handscomb, L. E., Hall, D. A., Shorter, G. W., & Hoare, D. (2017). Positive and negative thinking in tinnitus: factor structure of the Tinnitus Cognitions Questionnaire. Ear and Hearing, 38(1), 126–132. https://doi.org/10.1097/AUD.0000000000000365

Objectives: Researchers and clinicians consider thinking to be important in the development and maintenance of tinnitus distress, and altering thoughts or thinking style is an object of many forms of psychological therapy for tinnitus. Those working... Read More about Positive and negative thinking in tinnitus: factor structure of the Tinnitus Cognitions Questionnaire..

Pre-market version of a commercially available hearing instrument with a tinnitus sound generator: feasibility of evaluation in a clinical trial. (2016)
Journal Article
Sereda, M., Davies, J., & Hall, D. A. (in press). Pre-market version of a commercially available hearing instrument with a tinnitus sound generator: feasibility of evaluation in a clinical trial. International Journal of Audiology, https://doi.org/10.1080/14992027.2016.1254822

OBJECTIVE: This report considers feasibility of conducting a UK trial of combination devices for tinnitus, using data from the study which evaluated different listener programmes available within the pre-market version of Oticon Alta with Tinnitus S... Read More about Pre-market version of a commercially available hearing instrument with a tinnitus sound generator: feasibility of evaluation in a clinical trial..

Effects of noise exposure on young adults with normal audiograms I: Electrophysiology (2016)
Journal Article
Prendergast, G., Guest, H., Munro, K. J., Kluk, K., Léger, A., Hall, D. A., …Plack, C. J. (2017). Effects of noise exposure on young adults with normal audiograms I: Electrophysiology. Hearing Research, 344, 68-81. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heares.2016.10.028

Noise-induced cochlear synaptopathy has been demonstrated in numerous rodent studies. In these animal models, the disorder is characterized by a reduction in amplitude of wave I of the auditory brainstem response (ABR) to high-level stimuli, whereas... Read More about Effects of noise exposure on young adults with normal audiograms I: Electrophysiology.

Neuroanatomical Alterations in Tinnitus Assessed with Magnetic Resonance Imaging (2016)
Journal Article
Allan, T. W., Besle, J., Langers, D. R., Davies, J., Hall, D. A., Palmer, A. R., & Adjamian, P. (2016). Neuroanatomical Alterations in Tinnitus Assessed with Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 8, Article 221. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnagi.2016.00221

Previous studies of anatomical changes associated with tinnitus have provided inconsistent results, with some showing significant cortical and subcortical changes, while others have found effects due to hearing loss, but not tinnitus. In this study,... Read More about Neuroanatomical Alterations in Tinnitus Assessed with Magnetic Resonance Imaging.

Domains relating to the everyday impact of hearing loss, as reported by patients or their communication partner(s): protocol for a systematic review (2016)
Journal Article
Vas, V., Akeroyd, M. A., & Hall, D. A. (2016). Domains relating to the everyday impact of hearing loss, as reported by patients or their communication partner(s): protocol for a systematic review. BMJ Open, 6(9), 1-6. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2016-011463

INTRODUCTION: Hearing loss is a highly prevalent condition that affects around 1 in 6 people in the UK alone. This number is predicted to rise by the year 2031 to a staggering 14.5 million people due to the ageing population of the UK. Currently, th... Read More about Domains relating to the everyday impact of hearing loss, as reported by patients or their communication partner(s): protocol for a systematic review.

Systematic review of outcome domains and instruments used in clinical trials of tinnitus treatments in adults (2016)
Journal Article
Hall, D. A., Haider, H., Szczepek, A., Lau, P., Rabau, S., Jones-Diette, J., …Mazurek, B. (2016). Systematic review of outcome domains and instruments used in clinical trials of tinnitus treatments in adults. Trials, 17(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-016-1399-9

© 2016 Hall et al. Background: There is no evidence-based guidance to facilitate design decisions for confirmatory trials or systematic reviews investigating treatment efficacy for adults with tinnitus. This systematic review therefore seeks to ascer... Read More about Systematic review of outcome domains and instruments used in clinical trials of tinnitus treatments in adults.

A systematic review of the reporting of tinnitus prevalence and severity (2016)
Journal Article
McCormack, A., Edmondson-Jones, M., Somerset, S., & Hall, D. (2016). A systematic review of the reporting of tinnitus prevalence and severity. Hearing Research, 337, 70-79. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heares.2016.05.009

© 2016 Elsevier B.V. Introduction: There is no standard diagnostic criterion for tinnitus, although some clinical assessment instruments do exist for identifying patient complaints. Within epidemiological studies the presence of tinnitus is determine... Read More about A systematic review of the reporting of tinnitus prevalence and severity.