Table 2.
Sociodemographic and psychological characteristics for subjects with tinnitus with or without headache.
| Any Tinnitus | Tinnitus as a big problem | Severe tinnitus | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Headache (n = 660) No (%) | No headache (n = 1879) No (%) | Headache (n = 125) No (%) | No Headache (n = 218) n (%) | Headache (n = 79) No (%) | No Headache (n = 119) n (%) | |
| Sex | χ²(1) = 94.59, p < 0.0001 (<0.0001) | χ²(1) = 23.31, p < 0.0001 (p = 0.0003) | χ²(1) = 6.09, p = 0.014 (0.082) | |||
| Male | 225 (34.1) | 1054 (56.1) | 43 (34.4) | 134 (61.5) | 31 (39.2) | 68 (57.1) |
| Female | 435 (65.9) | 825 (43.9) | 82 (65.6) | 84 (38.5) | 48 (60.8) | 51 (42.9) |
| Age Group | χ²(7) = 38.47, p < 0.0001 (<0.0001) | χ²(7) = 5.81, p = 0.5619 (0.5619) | χ²(7) = 2.84, p = 0.899 (0.899) | |||
| <24 | 19 (2.9) | 40 (2.1) | 6 (4.8) | 4 (1.8) | 4 (5.1) | 6 (5.1) |
| 25–34 | 140 (21.3) | 350 (18.7) | 19 (15.3) | 34 (15.7) | 13 (16.7) | 28 (23.7) |
| 35–44 | 168 (25.6) | 407 (21.7) | 25 (20.2) | 42 (19.4) | 14 (18) | 21 (17.8) |
| 45–54 | 192 (29.2) | 487 (26) | 39 (31.5) | 62 (28.6) | 22 (28.2) | 26 (22) |
| 55–64 | 88 (13.4) | 272 (14.5) | 20 (16.1) | 37 (17.1) | 14 (18) | 21 (17.8) |
| 65–74 | 43 (6.5) | 268 (14.3) | 12 (9.7) | 24 (11.1) | 9 (11.5) | 11 (9.3) |
| 75–84 | 6 (0.9) | 48 (2.6) | 2 (1.6) | 12 (5.5) | 2 (2.6) | 4 (3.4) |
| >85 | 1 (0.2) | 3 (0.2) | 1 (0.8) | 2 (0.9) | 0 (0) | 1 (0.9) |
| Marital Status | χ²(4) = 7.84, p = 0.0974 (0.0974) | χ²(4) = 4.23, p = 0.3757 (0.45084) | χ²(4) = 4.36, p = 0.359 (0.539) | |||
| Married | 268 (40.6) | 830 (44.2) | 40 (32) | 91 (41.7) | 29 (36.7) | 43 (36.1) |
| Living with partner | 211 (32) | 551 (29.3) | 41 (32.8) | 68 (31.2) | 25 (31.7) | 44 (37) |
| Single | 132 (20) | 320 (17) | 28 (22.4) | 41 (18.8) | 16 (20.3) | 25 (21) |
| Widow/Widower | 5 (0.8) | 26 (1.4) | 3 (2.4) | 3 (1.4) | 1 (1.3) | 3 (2.5) |
| Divorced | 44 (6.7) | 152 (8.1) | 13 (10.4) | 15 (6.9) | 8 (10.1) | 4 (3.4) |
| Gross income | χ²(3) = 37.56, p < 0.0001 (<0.0001) | χ²(3) = 12.72, p = 0.0053 (0.0159) | χ²(3) = 5.08, p = 0.166 (0.332) | |||
| 0–200 000 SEK | 90 (13.6) | 215 (11.4) | 27 (21.6) | 36 (16.5) | 17 (21.5) | 25 (21) |
| 200 001–450 000 SEK | 368 (55.8) | 877 (46.7) | 72 (57.6) | 110 (50.5) | 49 (62) | 60 (50.4) |
| 450 001 SEK or more | 162 (24.6) | 706 (37.6) | 14 (11.2) | 59 (27.1) | 7 (8.9) | 24 (20.2) |
| Don’t know/don’t want to disclose | 40 (6.1) | 81 (4.3) | 12 (9.6) | 13 (6) | 6 (7.6) | 10 (8.4) |
| Education Level | χ²(3) = 6.8, p = 0.0785 (0.0942) | χ²(3) = 5.1, p = 0.1646 (0.2469) | χ²(3) = 8, p = 0.046 (0.138) | |||
| Middle School | 20 (3) | 48 (2.6) | 8 (6.4) | 13 (6) | 8 (10.1) | 5 (4.2) |
| High School | 138 (20.9) | 397 (21.1) | 34 (27.2) | 70 (32.1) | 23 (29.1) | 37 (31.1) |
| University | 424 (64.2) | 1273 (67.8) | 57 (45.6) | 109 (50) | 32 (40.5) | 65 (54.6) |
| Other | 78 (11.8) | 161 (8.6) | 26 (20.8) | 26 (11.9) | 16 (20.3) | 12 (10.1) |
| Employment | χ²(10) = 75.25, p < 0.0001 (<0.0001) | χ²(8) = 19.2, p = 0.0138 (0.0276) | χ²(7) = 4.54, p = 0.716 (0.86) | |||
| Don’t know | 2 (0.3) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) |
| Employed | 430 (65.2) | 1140 (60.7) | 59 (47.2) | 111 (50.9) | 39 (49.4) | 59 (49.6) |
| Unemployed | 14 (2.1) | 17 (0.9) | 7 (5.6) | 2 (0.9) | 4 (5.1) | 2 (1.7) |
| Running my own business/Working as a partner in a company | 67 (10.2) | 249 (13.3) | 8 (6.4) | 30 (13.8) | 4 (5.1) | 14 (11.8) |
| Retired | 44 (6.7) | 286 (15.2) | 15 (12) | 37 (17) | 11 (13.9) | 14 (11.8) |
| Sick leave (for more than two month) or disability pension due to illness or disability | 47 (7.1) | 49 (2.6) | 18 (14.4) | 23 (10.6) | 12 (15.2) | 16 (13.5) |
| Parental leave (since two months or longer) | 13 (2) | 27 (1.4) | 3 (2.4) | 3 (1.4) | 1 (1.3) | 2 (1.7) |
| Student | 28 (4.2) | 79 (4.2) | 10 (8) | 10 (4.6) | 7 (8.9) | 10 (8.4) |
| Sabbatical | 3 (0.5) | 2 (0.1) | 1 (0.8) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) |
| Housewife/-Husband | 0 (0) | 1 (0.1) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) |
| Other | 12 (1.8) | 29 (1.5) | 4 (3.2) | 2 (0.9) | 1 (1.3) | 2 (1.7) |
Income refers to yearly income in SEK. Pairwise comparisons using Pearson’s Chi-square test are reported. Percentages (%) displayed refer to column percentages. P values adjusted for multiple comparisons are shown between parenthesis. Estimates in bold are statistically significant at 0.05 level.