Tinnitus treatment: an experimental study

The Egyptian Journal of Otolaryngology

Table 1 Pairwise comparison of magnitude of impact across various scales using Cohen’s d

Group comparison		Significance and impact
Group comparison		Instruments
		PSI	QoL	TSI	THI	Pitch	Loudness	MML
Masking vs counselling	p-value	HS	NS	HS	HS	HS	HS	HS
Masking vs counselling	d-value	M	S	M	M	S	M	M
Counselling vs masking + coun	p-value	HS	HS	HS	HS	HS	HS	HS
Counselling vs masking + coun	d-value	M	S	L	VL	M	L	L
Masking vs masking + counselling	p-value	HS	HS	HS	HS	NS	NS	NS
Masking vs masking + counselling	d-value	M	M	VL	VL	L	S	S
Masking vs mask + coun + attention div	p-value	HS	HS	HS	HS	NS	HS	HS
Masking vs mask + coun + attention div	d-value	L	L	VL	H	VS	S	S
Masking + counselling vs mask + coun + attention div	p-value	S	HS	HS	HS	NS	S	S
Masking + counselling vs mask + coun + attention div	d-value	S	M	M	M	VS	S	S
Counselling vs mask + coun + attention div	p-value	HS	HS	HS	HS	HS	HS	HS
Counselling vs mask + coun + attention div	d-value	L	L	VL	H	M	L	L
NS—not significance (p ≥ 0.05)		VS—very small (d = 0.01)
S—significance (p < 0.05)		S—small (d = 0.2)
HS—highly significance (p < 0.01)		M–medium (d = 0.5)
VHS—very high significance (p < 0.001)		L—large (d = 0.8)
		VL—very large (d = 1.2)
		H—huge (d = 2)