Tinnitus Database

Project Description

Tinnitus is a frequent disorder and its treatment is elusive. Many different treatment options have been investigated but most trials provided inconclusive results with some patients responding and many others without any benefit. These results suggest that there exist different forms of tinnitus which differ in their pathophysiology and their response to specific treatments.

A challenge for tinnitus treatment and tinnitus research is therefore the identification of the most promising therapy for a specific patient. One approach to address this challenge is the systematic assessment of tinnitus patients in many clinical centers with standardized instruments (e.g., psychoacoustic measures, questionnaires). For this purpose the Tinnitus Research Initiative database has been created, which is further developed and enlarged in the current COST Action TINNET.

The Tinnitus Research Initiative Patient Database is a large multinational and rapidly growing patient data base project, in which every interested clinician and researcher can participate
Participation in the database project enables the clinician to have fast and comprehensive overview about patients’ clinical characteristics and changes under treatment and thus improves the quality of patient management
The large multi-national cross-sectional and longitudinal database of tinnitus patients is a unique resource for profiling of tinnitus patients and identification of outcome predictors for various therapeutic approaches.

Project Details

Links

Open the Tinnitus Database Website

Project Team

Ulm University
	Dr. Rüdiger Pryss Ulm University, Institute of Databases and Information Systems
	Michael Stach Ulm University, Institute of Databases and Information Systems
	Jochen Herrmann
	Aliyar Aras
	Norman Thiel
	Robin Zöller
	Marc Schickler Ulm University, Institute of Databases and Information Systems
	Johannes Schobel Ulm University, Institute of Databases and Information Systems
	Dr. Thomas Probst Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy
	Prof. Dr. Manfred Reichert Ulm University, Institute of Databases and Information Systems

University of Regensburg
	Dr. Winfried Schlee University of Regensburg, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
	Susanne Staudinger University of Regensburg, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
	Prof. Dr. Berthold Langguth University of Regensburg, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
	PD. Dr. Michael Landgrebe University of Regensburg, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
	Dr. phil. Martin Schecklmann University of Regensburg, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy

Project Partners

The database was developed by the Tinnitus Research Initiative (TRI) and the Institute of Databases and Information Systems (DBIS) at the University of Ulm.

Publications

| 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 |

2017

Dandage, Sourabh and Huber, Johannes and Janki, Atin and Niemann, Uli and Pryss, Rüdiger and Reichert, Manfred and Harrison, Steve and Vessala, Markku and Schlee, Winfried and Probst, Thomas and Spiliopoulou, Myra (2017) Patient Empowerment through Summarization of Discussion Threads on Treatments in a Patient Self-Help Forum. In: International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics, Thessaloniki, 18-21 November 2017, Springer. (Accepted for Publication)

Probst, Thomas and Pryss, Rüdiger and Langguth, Berthold and Spiliopoulou, Myra and Landgrebe, Michael and Vesala, Markku and Harrison, Stephen and Schobel, Johannes and Reichert, Manfred and Stach, Michael and Schlee, Winfried (2017) Outpatient Tinnitus Clinic, Self-Help Web Platform, or Mobile Application to Recruit Tinnitus Study Samples?. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, Frontiers, Vol. 9, pp. 113-113, 10.3389/fnagi.2017.00113.

Pryss, Rüdiger and Schlee, Winfried and Langguth, Berthold and Reichert, Manfred (2017) Mobile Crowdsensing Services for Tinnitus Assessment and Patient Feedback. In: 6th IEEE International Conference on AI & Mobile Services (IEEE AIMS 2017), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, June 25-30, 2017, IEEE Computer Society Press. (Accepted for Publication)

2016

Schickler, Marc and Pryss, Rüdiger and Reichert, Manfred and Schobel, Johannes and Langguth, Berthold and Schlee, Winfried (2016) Using Mobile Serious Games in the Context of Chronic Disorders - A Mobile Game Concept for the Treatment of Tinnitus. In: 29th IEEE Int'l Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS 2016), Belfast, 20 - 23 June 2016, pp. 343-348.

2015

Pryss, Rüdiger and Reichert, Manfred and Herrmann, Jochen and Langguth, Berthold and Schlee, Winfried (2015) Mobile Crowd Sensing in Clinical and Psychological Trials A Case Study. In: 28th IEEE Int'l Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems, Sao Carlos, Brazil, 22 - 25 June 2015, IEEE Computer Society Press, pp. 23-24.

Pryss, Rüdiger and Reichert, Manfred and Langguth, Berthold and Schlee, Winfried (2015) Mobile Crowd Sensing Services for Tinnitus Assessment, Therapy and Research. In: IEEE 4th International Conference on Mobile Services (MS 2015), New York, June 27 - July 2, 2015, IEEE Computer Society Press, pp. 352-359.

2014

Schlee, Winfried and Herrmann, Jochen and Pryss, Rüdiger and Reichert, Manfred and Langguth, Berthold (2014) How dynamic is the continuous tinnitus percept?. In: 11th International Tinnitus Seminar, Berlin, 21-24 May.