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. 2010 Mar 17;2010(3):CD007330. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD007330.pub2

Henry 2006.

Methods Randomised controlled trial
Participants n = 123
Military veterans
Screened initially with the Tinnitus‐Impact Screening Interview
Interventions Group 1: Tinnitus Retraining Therapy (TRT)
Group 2: tinnitus masking (TM)
TRT versus TM
Outcomes Tinnitus Handicap Inventory (THI)
Tinnitus Handicap Questionnaire (THQ)
Tinnitus Severity Index (TSI)
Verbally administered TRT interview forms
Notes Significant improvement for both groups
Group 1: greater improvement in outcome measures in the TRT group as compared with the TM group
Risk of bias
Bias Authors' judgement Support for judgement
Adequate sequence generation? High risk The sequence was a non‐specified form of random allocation for the first patient, followed by alternation
Allocation concealment? High risk The first qualifying patient was placed into a treatment group by random selection; each subsequent patient was placed by alternating between groups
Blinding? 
 All outcomes High risk This study was not blinded
Incomplete outcome data addressed? 
 All outcomes Low risk Incomplete outcome data were addressed appropriately
Free of selective reporting? Low risk All data were presented in full in an appropriate manner
Free of other bias? Low risk No other sources of potential bias were identified