View of ‘tinnitus’ and emotional status of patients, classified according to region
| North | South | East | Sign. | ||||
| n | % | n | % | n | % | ||
| What is tinnitus? | |||||||
| A central auditory disease | 8 | 3.7 | 9 | 4.0 | 17 | 9.2 | |
| A central auditory symptom | 88 | 40.7 | 64 | 28.4 | 37 | 20.1 | |
| A peripheral auditory disease | 11 | 5.1 | 17 | 7.6 | 12 | 6.5 | |
| A peripheral auditory symptom | 100 | 46.3 | 126 | 56.0 | 110 | 59.8 | |
| A psychological disease | 4 | 1.9 | 1 | 0.4 | 5 | 2.7 | |
| Combination/multiple causes/other | 5 | 2.3 | 6 | 2.7 | 3 | 1.6 | |
| Cannot answer/does not know | 2 | 0.9 | |||||
| Chronic or acute? | n.s. | ||||||
| Chronic (>3 months) | 123 | 56.9 | 144 | 64.6 | 104 | 56.5 | |
| Acute (<3 months) | 19 | 8.8 | 18 | 8.1 | 27 | 14.7 | |
| Both | 74 | 34.3 | 61 | 27.4 | 53 | 28.8 | |
| Emotional status of most patients | † | ||||||
| Very positive | 1 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2.7 | |
| Somewhat positive | 22 | 10.2 | 22 | 9.9 | 25 | 13.6 | |
| Neutral | 56 | 25.9 | 102 | 45.7 | 96 | 52.2 | |
| Somewhat distressed | 113 | 52.3 | 87 | 39.0 | 43 | 23.4 | |
| Very distressed | 24 | 11.1 | 12 | 5.4 | 15 | 8.2 | |
*Difference between north compared with south and east (α<0.05).
†Different between all groups (α<0.05).
n.s., not significant; Sign., significant difference.