【Objective】 To explore the clinical characteristics of negative emotion in tinnitus patients. 【Method】 A sample of 117 tinnitus patients was administrated with the DASS-21 and statistical analysis was performed with SPSS 19.0. 【Result】 No serious emotional problems in the most of tinnitus patients. Anxiety is the common negative emotion in tinnitus patients (47%)
and depression is the least (18.8%). Negative emotion will be affected by the number
course of disease
gender
and age. 【Conclusion】The DASS-21 is suitable for the use in reflect the level of depression and anxiety in tinnitus patients and facilitate the targeted clinical intervention. Tinnitus and non-tinnitus factors will affect the negative emotion in tinnitus patients together.