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Citation: Manchaiah, V.; Ratinaud, P.;Beukes, E.W. Reply to Aldè et al.Comment on “Manchaiah et al.Social Representations of “Tinnitus”and “Health” among Individualswith Tinnitus Seeking OnlinePsychological Interventions. Audiol.Res. 2023, 13, 207–220”. Audiol. Res.2023, 13, 653–654. https://doi.org/10.3390/audiolres13040057Academic Editor: Giacinto AsprellaLibonatiReceived: 10 August 2023Accepted: 10 August 2023Published: 14 August 2023Copyright: © 2023 by the authors.Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.This article is an open access articledistributed under the terms andconditions of the Creative CommonsAttribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).ReplyReply to Aldè et al. Comment on “Manchaiah et al. SocialRepresentations of “Tinnitus” and “Health” among Individualswith Tinnitus Seeking Online Psychological Interventions.Audiol. Res. 2023, 13, 207–220”Vinaya Manchaiah 1,2,3,4,5,* , Pierre Ratinaud 6 and Eldre W. Beukes 71 Department of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery, University of Colorado School of Medicine,Aurora, CO 80045, USA2 UCHealth Hearing and Balance, University of Colorado Hospital, Aurora, CO 80045, USA3 Virtual Hearing Lab, Collaborative Initiative between University of Colorado School of Medicineand University of Pretoria, Aurora, CO 80045, USA4 Department of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, University of Pretoria,Pretoria 0002, Gauteng, South Africa5 Department of Speech and Hearing, Manipal College of Health Professions, Manipal Academy of HigherEducation, Manipal 576104, Karnataka, India6 Laboratoire d’Études et de Recherches Appliquées en Sciences Sociales (LERASS), University of Toulouse,31000 Toulouse, France; pierre.ratinaud@univ-tlse2.fr7 Vision and Hearing Sciences Research Group, School of Psychology and Sport Science,Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge CB1 1PT, UK; eldre.beukes@aru.ac.uk* Correspondence: vinaya.manchaiah@cuanschutz.eduWe would like to thank Dr. Aldè and his colleuage’s for their thoughtful comments [1]regarding our recent publication “Social representations of “tinnitus” and “health” amongindividuals with tinnitus seeking online psychological interventions” [2].Dr. Aldè and colleagues’ comment about the relatively small sample size in the study(n = 399) for a social representation study is valid. However, there is no statistical method-ology for estimating the sample size for such studies. Also, considering the exploratorynature of the published study, we think that the sample size was reasonable. However, wefully agree that repeating the study with a larger sample size (n > 1000) as well as withappropriate sampling method would yield results that are more generalizable.The study was secondary analysis of data gathered during clinical trials [3–5]. For thisreason, we only included participants who were seeking online psychological interventions.However, as acknowledged in our study limitations, this population may not be a goodrepresentation of the clinical population that we see as well as all those who experiencetinnitus. For this reason, the study results must be viewed with caution. We also agree thatfuture research on this topic should be performed on clinical sample.The study was conducted completely online without any in-person consultationduring the COVID-19 pandemic. For this reason, we do not have details on participantsclinical variables such as hearing status (pure-tone audiometry results), hearing device useand other medical conditions. To ensure that the study participants did not have hugeburden of completing online questionnaires, we kept the questionnaire data collectionlimited to key demographics and outcome measures necessary for the clinical trials. Wehave discussed the participants characters based on these in the social representationstudy [2] as well as on our clinical trials [3–5]. However, we fully agree that having acomplete picture of participants clinical and health variables could have provided muchbetter understanding.We highly appreciate Dr. Aldè and his colleague’s thoughtful comments on thismanuscript. We will keep these comments in mind when designing the future studies inthis area of study.Audiol. Res. 2023, 13, 653–654. https://doi.org/10.3390/audiolres13040057 https://www.mdpi.com/journal/audiolresAudiol. Res. 2023, 13 654Author Contributions: Conceptualization and writing—original draft preparation, V.M.; writing—re-view and editing, E.W.B. and P.R. All authors have read and agreed to the published version ofthe manuscript.Conflicts of Interest: The authors declare no conflict of interest.References1. Aldè, M.; Iannella, G.; Lechien, J.R.; Simon, F.; Maniaci, A. Comment on Manchaiah et al. Social Representations of “Tinnitus”and “Health” among Individuals with Tinnitus Seeking Online Psychological Interventions. Audiol. Res. 2023, 13, 207–220. Audiol.Res. 2023, 13, 651–652. [CrossRef]2. Manchaiah, V.; Chundu, S.; Ratinaud, P.; Andersson, G.; Beukes, E.W. Social Representations of “Tinnitus” and “Health” amongIndividuals with Tinnitus Seeking Online Psychological Interventions. Audiol. Res. 2023, 13, 207–220. [CrossRef] [PubMed]3. Beukes, E.W.; Andersson, G.; Fagelson, M.; Manchaiah, V. Audiologist-Supported Internet-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapyfor Tinnitus in the United States: A Pilot Trial. Am. J. Audiol. 2021, 30, 717–729. [CrossRef] [PubMed]4. Beukes, E.W.; Andersson, G.; Fagelson, M.A.; Manchaiah, V. Internet-based audiologist-guided cognitive behavioral therapytinnitus in the United States: A randomized controlled trial. J. Med. Internet Res. 2022, 24, e27584. [CrossRef] [PubMed]5. Beukes, E.W.; Andersson, G.; Fagelson, M.A.; Manchaiah, V. Dismantling internet-based cognitive behavioral therapy for tinnitus.The contribution of applied relaxation: A randomized controlled trial. Internet Interv. 2021, 25, 100402. [CrossRef] [PubMed]Disclaimer/Publisher’s Note: The statements, opinions and data contained in all publications are solely those of the individualauthor(s) and contributor(s) and not of MDPI and/or the editor(s). 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