Gerhard and his team then conducted a trial with sixty-four patients who were divided randomly into two groups assigned to receive either TRT or ten approximately one-hour sessions of ACT training. At a six-month follow-up, 55 percent of the patients who received ACT training were significantly improved in the degree to which their tinnitus was adversely interfering with their lives, such as preventing sound sleep or causing anxiety or depression. That was nearly three times as many as the 20 percent who reported improvement after receiving TRT.
