Psychological Therapy for People with Tinnitus: A Scoping Review of Treatment Components.

This is a scoping review, so it maps what has been described or tested but does not judge study quality or combine results to show which therapy works. It included only English-language records about adults from 1980 onward, so relevant work in other languages, for children, or from earlier periods may be missing. It excluded records where biofeedback, habituation, hypnosis, or isolated relaxation were necessary parts of the psychological treatment. No included empirical trial clearly tested psychological therapy delivered by an audiologist, so the review cannot tell whether that professional can deliver these components effectively. The authors caution that combining components from different therapies without further analysis could produce a disjointed intervention.

The authors report no conflicts of interest to disclose.

Do not read this review as proof that any listed component works or that audiologists can deliver psychological therapy effectively. It maps described and tested components; it does not synthesize outcomes, and no included trial clearly tested audiologist-delivered psychological therapy.