Evaluation of chronic idiopathic tinnitus and its psychosocial triggers
Sherifa Ahmed Hamed, Fadia Ahmed Attiah, Mohamed Fawzy, Mohamed Azzam
Sherifa Ahmed Hamed, Fadia Ahmed Attiah, Mohamed Fawzy, Department of Neurology and Psychiatry, Assiut University, Faculty of Medicine, Assiut 71516, Egypt
Mohamed Azzam, Department of Otolaryngology, Assiut University, Faculty of Medicine, Assiut 71516, Egypt
Author contributions: Hamed SA was the guarantor and designed the study, conducted the data collection and neurologic evaluation of the patients, applied the diagnostic work-up questionnaires on the patients, and contributed to the statistical analyses and manuscript drafting; Attiah FA and Fawzy M conducted the psychiatric interviewing, and participated in the acquisition, analysis, and interpretation of the data; Azzam M did the ENT evaluation, and participated in the acquisition, analysis, and interpretation of the data; Attiah FA, Fawzy M, and Azzam M revised the article critically for important intellectual content.
Institutional review board statement: The Ethics Committees of Faculty of Medicine of Assiut University, Assiut Governorate, Egypt, approved the study protocol.
Informed consent statement: All study participants, or their guardian, provided informed written consent prior to study enrollment.
Conflict-of-interest statement: The authors have no conflicts of interest to report.
Data sharing statement: No additional data are available.
STROBE statement: The authors have read the STROBE Statement-checklist of items, and the manuscript was prepared and revised according to the STROBE Statement-checklist of items.
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article that was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See:
https://creativecommons.org/Licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Corresponding author: Sherifa Ahmed Hamed, MD, Professor, Department of Neurology and Psychiatry, Assiut University, Faculty of Medicine, Assiut University Street, Nayla Khatoun, Gharb District, Assiut 71516, Egypt. hamedsherifa@aun.edu.eg
Received: December 27, 2022
Peer-review started: December 27, 2022
First decision: February 2, 2023
Revised: February 18, 2023
Accepted: April 10, 2023
Article in press: April 10, 2023
Published online: May 16, 2023
