Table 2. Demographic and audiological characteristics of patients in the study and control groups.

	Study group [Frequency (%)]	Control group [Frequency (%)]	p-value
Number [%]	134 (59.3)	92 (40.7)
Age [mean, SD, range]	48.5, 14.1, 15–79	45.9, 13.6, 19–84	0.1639
Sex [Frequency (%)]			0.5670
Male	78 (58.2)	50 (54.3)
Female	56 (41.8)	42 (45.7)
Tinnitus length [Mean, SD, range]	4.9, 6.6, 1–40	4.5, 5.6, 1–28	0.6225
Tinnitus side [Frequency (%)]			0.4715
Bilateral	75 (55.9)	47 (51.1)
Unilateral (left)	38 (28.3)	32 (34.8)
Unilateral (right)	21 (15.8)	13 (14.1)
Tinnitus sound [Frequency (%)]
Buzzing	14 (10.4)	24 (26.1)
High-Pitch	43 (32.1)	10 (10.9)
Low-Pitch	35 (26.1)	15 (16.3)
Whistle	32 (23.9)	34 (36.9)
Other	10 (7.5)	9 (9.8)
Questionnaires [mean, SD, range]
THI	46.9, 20.8, 4–90	27.5, 20.1, 2–94	<0.0001 *
HHI	15.1, 17.1, 0–72	10.1, 7.3, 0–30	0.0084 *
HQ	14.2, 7.8, 0–35	13.1, 10.6, 0–30	0.4017
GUF	10.2, 7.2, 0–35	8.6, 6.7, 0–28	0.0992

Details of demographic and audiological characteristics and self-administered questionnaire scores of patients in the study and control groups.

* Indicates statistical significance.