Relação da percepção do zumbido e ansiedade

Abstract

The present dissertation had as overall objective to investigate the relationship of the perception of tinnitus with levels of anxiety in the literature and also after the simulation test of public speaking (SFP). The structure of this work consists of two articles: the first is a review entitled “Tinnitus and anxiety: a systematic review”, whose objective was to perform a survey in the literature, national and international, from the past ten years, about the relationship of tinnitus and anxiety. The study concluded that there is a close relationship between tinnitus and the minor psychiatric disorders, anxiety, for example, and even more protocols used nationally and internationally to assess the levels of anxiety are the Trait-State Anxiety Inventory and for tinnitus, the Tinnitus Handicap Inventory. The second article was the result of a clinical and experimental research, entitled: “The perception of tinnitus with anxiety levels before and after the ansiogenic task” and aimed to investigate the relationship of perception of tinnitus with levels of anxiety at times “pre”, “during” and “post” the simulation test of public speaking-SFP. The study demonstrated a correlation that exists between tinnitus and levels of non-induced anxiety, but could not correlate with experimental anxiety, since the SFP test did not generate anxiety in the group under study, composed of individuals with tinnitus.