Table 1.

Comparison of psychometric scores between female and male patients.

	Total	Female	Male
Scale	(N = 1,628)	(n = 828)	(n = 800)	p-value
TQ
Total score	38.53 ±17.18	39.95 ±16.34	37.06 ±17.89	<0.01*
Emotional distress	10.70 ± 5.68	10.88 ± 5.47	10.52 ± 5.88	0.136
Cognitive distress	6.82 ± 4.08	6.97 ± 3.99	6.67 ± 4.16	0.099
Psychological distress	17.53 ± 9.33	17.85 ± 9.01	17.19 ± 9.65	0.099
Intrusiveness	10.31 ± 3.67	10.49 ± 3.47	10.12 ± 3.87	0.130
Auditory perceptual difficulties	5.12 ± 3.70	5.41 ± 3.63	4.82 ± 3.74	<0.01*
Sleep disturbances	3.43 ± 2.54	3.74 ± 2.50	3.11 ± 2.54	<0.01*
Somatic complaints	2.15 ± 1.93	2.46 ± 1.94	1.82 ± 1.86	<0.01*
PSQ
Total score	0.46 ± 0.18	0.48 ± 0.18	0.43 ± 0.19	<0.01*
Worries	0.39 ± 0.23	0.41 ± 0.22	0.37 ± 0.23	<0.01*
Tension	0.57 ± 0.23	0.61 ± 0.22	0.53 ± 0.24	<0.01*
Demand	0.49 ± 0.24	0.53 ± 0.24	0.46 ± 0.24	<0.01*
Joy	0.49 ± 0.23	0.48 ± 0.23	0.49 ± 0.23	0.182
SF8
Mental component	41.34 ±12.10	40.16 ±11.80	42.55 ±12.29	<0.01*
Physical component	45.42 ± 9.71	44.44 ± 9.79	46.42 ± 9.53	<0.01*
ADSL
Depressivity	17.93 ±11.60	19.33 ±11.44	16.48 ±11.59	<0.01*
TINSKAL
Tinnitus impairment	4.99 ± 2.59	4.97 ± 2.66	5.02 ± 2.52	0.992
Tinnitus loudness	5.03 ± 2.62	4.95 ± 2.72	5.11 ± 2.51	0.486
Tinnitus frequency	8.09 ± 3.00	7.82 ± 3.24	8.37 ± 2.69	<0.01*

Values are reported as mean ± SD. p-values were calculated using independent two-tailed Wilcoxon test adjusted for multiple comparison using Benjamini-Hochberg correction. Asterisks denote significant differences between female and male patients with a significance level of α = 0.05. ADSL: General Depression Scale-long form (Radloff, 1977; Hautzinger and Bailer, 2002); PSQ: Perceived Stress Questionnaire (Fliege et al., 2005); SF8: Short Form-8 Health Survey (Bullinger and Morfeld, 2008); TINSKAL: visual analogue scales measuring tinnitus loudness, frequency and impairment; TQ: German version of the Tinnitus Questionnaire (Goebel and Hiller, 1998).