Misophonia App Research Case Study

What a randomized crossover study suggests about app-based support for misophonia symptoms and anger-related metacognitions.

Misophonia App Research Case Study

What a randomized crossover study suggests about app-based support for misophonia symptoms and anger-related metacognitions.

This page summarizes the misophonia research connected to the platform. It focuses on the study design, sample, effect sizes, and what visitors can reasonably take from the findings.

1Misophonia paper
85Participants
15 daysIntervention
2025Published year
What was studied

Misophonia symptoms and anger-related metacognitions.

The misophonia study used a randomized crossover design with immediate-app and delayed-app groups.

Misophonia symptoms in a randomized crossover design.
Anger-related metacognitions as an important supporting outcome.
15-day intervention with 1-month follow-up.
Within-group effect sizes reported for both immediate and delayed app groups.
Most concrete finding

Both groups showed significant reductions.

Podoly et al. (2025) reported significant reductions in misophonia symptoms and anger-related metacognitions, with within-group effect sizes ranging from moderate to large.

The proposal notes Cohen’s d = 0.62-1.51 in the immediate-app group and 0.89-1.75 in the delayed-app group.

Key findings

1. A randomized crossover design tested timing of access.

Participants were assigned to immediate-app or delayed-app groups, allowing the researchers to compare outcomes across intervention timing.

Podoly et al. 2025 DOI →

2. The study tracked both symptoms and metacognitions.

The findings include reductions in misophonia symptoms and anger-related metacognitions, which gives the page a clear condition-specific angle.

Podoly et al. 2025 DOI →

Papers cited

Paper Year What it contributes
Podoly et al. – Misophonia RCT
doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2025.03.060
2025 85 participants; randomized crossover; significant reductions in misophonia symptoms and anger-related metacognitions.
What this means

This page gives misophonia its own evidence story.

Rather than folding misophonia into general anxiety, the page can explain that the platform has condition-specific research on misophonia symptoms and anger-related thinking patterns.

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