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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Audiol. 2009 Dec;18(2):144–151. doi: 10.1044/1059-0889(2009/07-0042)

Table 3.

Average Tinnitus Handicap Questionnaire (THQ) scores pre- and postimplantation for patients whose tinnitus was not eliminated (n = 58).

Preimplantation Postimplantation
Variable Score SD Score SD Difference t df P
THQ total score 41.2 22.35 29.8 19.45 3.85 57 .00*
Factor 1—social, emotional, and behavioral effects 29.0 25.61 22.6 22.94 6.4 1.93 57 .06
Social subscale 29.8 26.87 23.6 24.13 6.2 1.75 57 .09
Emotional subscale 31.7 28.74 23.4 23.97 8.3 2.22 57 .03*
Physical Behaviors subscale 25.0 25.49 20.8 24.62 4.2 1.19 57 .24
Factor 2—tinnitus and hearing 38.3 34.09 24.0 23.86 14.3 3.34 57 .00*

Note. A paired t test was used to test for significance (indicated by *) at p < .05.