Table 6.

Change in secondary outcome measures for TRT treatment group from the Tinnitus Experience Questionnaire (TEQ), Tinnitus Interview Questionnaire (TIQ) and Tinnitus Functional Index (TFI), from entry to 18‐month assessment; average (SD).

		Entry	6 month	12 month	18 month
Now	Loudness (TEQ)	76.3 (16.1)	69.6 (18.1)	60.7 (18.5)*	58.1 (25.2)*
	Effort to ignore (TEQ)	67.5 (18.7)	50.7 (17.5)*	44.1 (23.0)†	43.7 (18.7)†
Over the past week	TFI total mean (SD)	62.0 (17.8)	30.0 (14.3)‡	26.2 (15.2)‡	24.4 (21.7)‡
Over the past month	Rated negative impact (TIQ)	54.5 (26.7)	22.8 (20.3)†	15.3 (11.2)‡	13.1 (13.8)‡
	Percent of time Aware (TIQ)	80.9 (20.4)	40.2 (25.3)‡	35.9 (29.5)‡	39.2 (26.6)‡
	Percent of time annoyed or distressed (TIQ)	64.6 (25.5)	25.2 (22.3)‡	22.2 (22.0)‡	18.8 (16.9)‡
	Rated annoyance (TIQ)	71.9 (21.1)	43.6 (20.7)†	36.4 (25.2)‡	35.4 (28.5)‡

Within group comparison to entry values: *p ≤ .05, ^†p ≤ .005, ^‡p < .000.