An increase in the auditory steady-state response amplitudes after a period of listening to binaural beat stimuli in tinnitus patients: a pilot study

The Egyptian Journal of Otolaryngology

Table 2 The results of the subjective and psychoacoustic evaluations before and after tinnitus management

	Mean (pre)	Mean (post)	Paired difference					T	Sig. (2 tailed)
			Mean	Std. deviation	Std. error mean	95% confidence interval of the difference
			Mean	Std. deviation	Std. error mean	Lower	Upper
Loudness	6.76	4.7	2.05	1.39	0.33	1.34	2.77	0.000	6.1
VAS_L^a	6.05	4.88	1.17	1.01	0.24	0.62	1.69	0.000	4.71
VAS_A^b	6.76	4.7	2.05	1.56	0.378	1.25	2.85	0.000	5.44
THI^c	52.88	43.35	9.52	14.79	3.58	1.92	17.13	0.017	2.65

^aVisual analog scale-loudness, ^bvisual analog scale-annoyance, ^ctinnitus handicap inventory