Track Your Tinnitus App

Uh? I thought constantly monitoring one's tinnitus was a bad idea. The Tinnitus Research Initiative has released a smartphone app that is supposed to do just that.

https://www.trackyourtinnitus.org/

The most useful part may be the statistics you must fill before downloading the app.

 

Has anyone used this app and have they found it useful - or not?

 

Differences between Android and iOS Users of the TrackYourTinnitus Mobile Crowdsensing mHealth Platform.

 

It's about TrackYourTinnitus app.

EXPLORING DIMENSIONALITY REDUCTION EFFECTS IN MIXED REALITY FOR ANALYZING TINNITUS PATIENT DATA

 

It seems it is a review of the TrackYourTinnitus app, but I have no access to the full article since I am not a student of the university of Ulm (Germany).

http://dbis.eprints.uni-ulm.de/1823/

 

It appears to be for research mostly. They do have a disclaimer stating that you should stop using the app if you think your tinnitus worsens as a result.

 

I keep a log every day... scale T, A & D at 1-10.

T Tinnitus
A Anxiety
D Depression
M Medication - what was taken (if any) that day
F Food consumed that day
W Weather

It works well for me. When days suck I look back at the better days and it always gives me hope. Spikes don't last forever.

Courage!

 

Some excerpts from chapter 13: Momentary assess of tinnitus - how smart mobile applications advance our understanding of tinnitus, from the book

Digital Phenotyping and Mobile Sensing: New Developments in Psychoinformatics

https://books.google.fr/books?hl=fr...1VInWCUfqBZlwcYMWshfOcZr0#v=onepage&q&f=false