Table 1.
Site and patient characteristics
| [Patient Reported] What is the main concern today? | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Evaluation/treatment of: | |||||
| Both Tinnitus and Dizziness |
Tinnitus | Dizziness | No Response |
Grand Total |
|
| Patients enrolled, no. | 443 | 427 | 527 | 135 | 1532 |
| CHEER sites enrolling, no. | 16 | 16 | 15 | 11 | 16 |
| CHEER sites enrolling (no. enrolling/no. of active trained sites or 22 sites), % | 73 | 73 | 68 | 50 | 73 |
| States represented, no. | 13 | 13 | 12 | 11 | 13 |
| Average patients enrolled per site, no. | 27.7 | 26.7 | 35.1 | 12.3 | 95.8 |
| Min. patients per site, no. | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Max. patients per site, no. | 80 | 87 | 100 | 31 | 264 |
| Median patients per site, no. | 17 | 14.5 | 26 | 4 | 64.5 |
| Demographics—characteristics (patient reported) | |||||
| Main concern for visit (respondents), % | 29 | 28 | 34 | 9 | 100 |
| Female, % | 60 | 51 | 71 | 58 | 61 |
| Average age, yrs | 54.6 | 54.3 | 53.9 | 55.8 | 54.6 |
| Race/Ethnicity, % | |||||
| Caucasian | 86 | 86 | 84 | 76 | 84 |
| African American | 6 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 7 |
| Asian | 2 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 |
| American Indian or Alaskan Native | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Other | 4 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 3 |
| Hispanic | 6 | 5 | 4 | 75 | 5 |
| Married, % | 64 | 65 | 65 | 66 | 65 |
| Living with spouse or partner, % | 70 | 70 | 69 | 70 | 69 |
| Employed full-time, % | 46 | 56 | 45 | 47 | 49 |
| On disability, % | 10 | 5 | 8 | 4 | 8 |
| Prior neck injury, % | 8.8 | 2.3 | 4.0 | 4.2 | 4.9 |
| Prior brain injury, % | 6.3 | 1.6 | 2.9 | 4.2 | 3.6 |
| Prior motor vehicle accident, % | 9.7 | 1.9 | 4.6 | 5.0 | 5.4 |
| Current treatment, % | |||||
| Dialysis | 0.9 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 |
| Chemotherapy | 1.8 | 0.7 | 1.0 | 0.8 | 1.2 |
| Alternative or herbal medications | 5.9 | 3.3 | 4.6 | 0.8 | 4.2 |