Table A2.

Results of the multinomial regression analyses for continuous and intermittent tinnitus.

Variables	Intermittent Tinnitus	Continuous Tinnitus
Pseudo R-square (Cox and Snell)	0.05	0.12
Age (covariate)	0.97 (0.94–1.01)	0.96 (0.92–1.01)
Sex
Male	1.24 (0.94–1.01)	1.63 (1.22–2.17) **
Female	1	1
Ethnicity
Europeans	1.18 (0.93–1.49)	1.00 (0.76–1.31)
Non-Europeans	1	1
Reoccurring ear infections
Yes	1.46 (1.15–1.85) *	1.66 (1.26–2.19) **
No	1	1
Health history
Present	1.17 (0.89–1.53)	1.41 (1.04–1.92) *
Absent	1	1
Noise exposure
Always	3.14 (1.32–7.45) *	6.25 (2.58–15.11) ***
Most of the time	3.89 (2.23–6.78) ***	6.62 (3.70–11.83) ***
About half the time	1.88 (1.21–2.90) *	3.46 (2.18–5.49) ***
Sometimes	2.00 (1.60–2.51) ***	2.31 (1.76–3.03) ***
Never	1	1
COVID-19
Yes	1.07 (0.81–1.42)	1.07 (0.81–1.42)
No	1	1

* p < 0.05, ** p < 0.001, *** p < 10⁻⁵.