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Hindawi Publishing Corporation International Journal of Otolaryngology Volume 2012, Article ID 375460, 7 pages doi:10.1155/2012/375460 Research Article Anxiety and Depression in Tinnitus Patients: 5-Year Follow-Up Assessment after Completion of Habituation Therapy Eva-Signe Falkenberg1 and Ona Bø Wie1, 2 1 Department of Special Needs Education, Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Oslo, P.O. Box 1140 Blindern, 0318 Oslo, Norway 2 Department of Otolaryngology, Oslo University Hospital, Rikshospitalet, P.O. Box 4950 Nydalen, 0424 Oslo, Norway Correspondence should be addressed to Ona Bø Wie, onabw@isp.uio.no Received 17 November 2011; Accepted 26 January 2012 ´ Academic Editor: Javier Gavilan Copyright © 2012 E.-S. Falkenberg and O. B. Wie. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Treatment programs based on a neurophysiological model have shown a positive effect on anxiety and depression in tinnitus patients. The aim of this paper was to assess the long-term eff ect of tinnitus habituation therapy. Sixty-eight individuals were treated with a comprehensive therapy program. The degree of anxiety and depression was assessed before, after, and five years after intervention using the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale. The positive and significant changes achieved after habituation therapy (pre = 1.10, post = 0.92 for anxiety and pre = 0.77, post = 0.62 for depression) were maintained five years after treatment ended (0.87 for anxiety and 0.52 for depression). A regression analysis revealed that individual evaluation of the treatm