Reasons for Discontinuing Active Participation on the Internet Forum Tinnitus Talk: Mixed Methods Citizen Science Study

Sanja Budimir   ^{1 *} , PhD ;   Martin Kuska   ^{1 *} , PhD ;   Myra Spiliopoulou   ² , Prof Dr ;   Winfried Schlee   ³ , PD, PhD ;   Rüdiger Pryss   ⁴ , Prof Dr ;   Gerhard Andersson   ^{5, 6, 7} , Prof Dr ;   Hazel Goedhart   ⁸ , MSc ;   Stephen Harrison   ⁸ ;   Markku Vesala   ⁸ ;   Gourish Hegde   ² , MSc ;   Berthold Langguth   ³ , Prof Dr ;   Christoph Pieh   ¹ , Prof Dr ;   Thomas Probst   ¹ , Prof Dr

¹ Department for Psychotherapy and Biopsychosocial Health, Danube University Krems, Krems an der Donau, Austria

² Knowledge Management & Discovery Lab, Faculty of Computer Science, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany

³ Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Regensburg University, Regensburg, Germany

⁴ Institute of Clinical Epidemiology and Biometry, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

⁵ Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

⁶ Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden

⁷ Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

⁸ Tinnitus Hub, London, United Kingdom

*these authors contributed equally