Combining the unequal variance signal detection model with the health belief model to optimize shared decision making in tinnitus patients: part 2—patient profiling

These findings underscore the importance of personalized treatment approaches based on specific patient characteristics and the need for further research to test and improve these findings. Especially males may be more strongly advised to take up psychosocial counseling and females may be more strongly advised to take up audiological care. For age and laterality, the results are more diffuse.