{"title":"Group or individual tinnitus therapy: What matters to participants?","authors":"P. Thompson, H. Pryce, E. Refaie","doi":"10.3109/1651386X.2011.604470","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Objective: To explore the ‘active ingredient’ of tinnitus therapy groups. Study design: The design was an inductive qualitative study informed by grounded theory. Eight participants, four from a tinnitus group and four from individual therapy with similar content, were invited to discuss their experiences of tinnitus therapy. The interviews were transcribed and analysed using a constant comparative approach. Results: The findings revealed that group experiences facilitate information exchange and social comparison, which facilitates coping. Conclusions: The human dynamics of groups may have an additional therapeutic benefit.","PeriodicalId":88223,"journal":{"name":"Audiological medicine","volume":"10 1","pages":"110 - 116"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2011-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"7","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Audiological medicine","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.3109/1651386X.2011.604470","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract Objective: To explore the ‘active ingredient’ of tinnitus therapy groups. Study design: The design was an inductive qualitative study informed by grounded theory. Eight participants, four from a tinnitus group and four from individual therapy with similar content, were invited to discuss their experiences of tinnitus therapy. The interviews were transcribed and analysed using a constant comparative approach. Results: The findings revealed that group experiences facilitate information exchange and social comparison, which facilitates coping. Conclusions: The human dynamics of groups may have an additional therapeutic benefit.