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common approaches to care giving and typical care providers in Misophonia

Molthrop et al. (2026) surveyed 22 US caregivers of individuals with misophonia about the strategies and providers they had used, and found that environmental and avoidance-based approaches were the most common, with home rearrangement, modified event planning, and active noise cancelling each endorsed by over three-quarters of the sample, followed by supportive therapy, passive noise cancelling, anti-anxiety medication, regular sleep schedules, and school accommodations. Among families who had sought professional care, most had seen more than one provider, with audiologists most frequently consulted, followed by mental health therapists, occupational therapists, psychologists, psychiatrists, and primary care providers. Despite this breadth of strategies and providers, mean treatment satisfaction was very low, and caregivers described existing approaches as offering coping rather than meaningful symptom reduction (Molthrop et al., 2026).