Table 1.
Numerical variables for the whole sample (n = 57).
| Variable | NT | CT | PCT | p value | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n/% | Median | IQI | n/% | Median | IQI | n/% | Median | IQI | ||||||||
| Age (years) | 33 / 57.9 | 45 | 34 | - | 60 | 13 / 22.8 | 58 | 39 | - | 64 | 11 / 19.3 | 53 | 44 | - | 67 | 0.12 |
| Tinnitus duration (months) | 13 | 36 | 12 | - | 120 | 10 | 1,5 | 1 | - | 5.3 | 0.0001 | |||||
| VAS loudness | 13 | 6 | 4,5 | - | 6 | 10 | 5 | 3.8 | - | 7.8 | 0.97 | |||||
| VAS distress | 13 | 5 | 2,5 | - | 8 | 10 | 5 | 3.8 | - | 10 | 0.26 | |||||
| THI score | 13 | 28 | 12 | - | 47 | 10 | 37 | 11 | - | 62 | 0.47 | |||||
NT, no tinnitus; CT, chronic tinnitus; PCT, post-COVID-19 tinnitus; IQI, interquartile interval; VAS, visual analog scale; THI, Tinnitus Handicap Inventory.
Statistically significant data are indicated in bold.