Perfil audiológico de pacientes com queixa de zumbido

Abstract

The subjectivity of the tinnitus is the factor that more brings difficulties and scarcity of data in its study, generating the necessity to discover more about all the involved aspects. This work had for objective to trace the audiological profile of patients with tinnitus complaint, taken care of in the sector of audiologia and hearing aid of the Serviço de Atendimento Fonoaudiológico (SAF) in the period of April of 2003 to June of 2006 The only criterion of inclusion for the research was the presence of complaint of tinnitus, unilateral or bilateral. The sample was constituted of 68 individuals, 32 of feminine sex and 36 of the masculine sex, with ages between 12 and 88 years in the date of the evaluation. The audiologicals examinations and the anamneses of the individuals had been consulted, how much the sex, type, degree and configuration of the hearing loss. With the gotten data, it was carried through an analysis through simple tables and cruzades. The data of this work had been compatible with other carried through studies already. The analysis of the data disclosed that the hearing loss of the neurossensorial type predominates in the patients with tinnitus complaint (72.79%). How much to the degree, the moderate degree is found (65.67%); e the configuration of descending hearing loss is the prevalent (53.73%). In this study, it did not have difference enters the prevalence of type, degree and configuration of the auditory loss between ears with complaint and without complaint of tinnitus.