Τίτλος:
Validation of the Greek version of Mini Tinnitus Questionnaire as a Brief Screening Test for Assessment of Tinnitus-related Distress: Our experience in 301 adult patients
Γλώσσες Τεκμηρίου:
Αγγλικά
Περίληψη:
Objectives: Validation of the Greek version of Mini Tinnitus Questionnaire (Mini-TQ-GR) as a Brief Screening Test for Assessment of Tinnitus-related Distress. Design: Questionnaire study. Setting: 401 General Military Hospital of Athens/Department of Audiology - Neurootology, Athens, Greece. Participants: Three hundred and one participants have anonymously completed the Mini-TQ-GR, comparing it to the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS 14) and Multidimensional Health Locus of Control Scale (MΗLoC) from November 2013 until May 2014. Main outcome measure: Mini-TQ-GR, compared to PSS 14 and MΗLoC. Results: Factor analysis, has shown that the Mini-TQ-GR includes three main factors (Distress, Health pre-occupation and Depression), which explains the 59.05% of the total variance. The Cronbach alpha index was 0.865 approaching the respective reliability factor of the original validation (0.9). The test-retest correlation (intraclass correlation coefficient) was 0.9 (P < 0.01), close to the results of the original study (0.89). We found a positive correlation between tinnitus and perceived stress (r = 0.349**) and negative correlation between tinnitus and external locus of control (r = -0.124*, r = -0.198**) (chance, others). Conclusions: This study demonstrated that the Mini-TQ-GR has good internal consistency and reliability becoming a useful, validated measurement tool for tinnitus-induced distress. © 2015 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
Συγγραφείς:
Panagiotopoulos, G.
Galanakis, M.
Varvogli, L.
Chrousos, G.
Darviri, C.
Περιοδικό:
Clinical Otolaryngology
Εκδότης:
Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Λέξεις-κλειδιά:
adult; aged; Article; controlled study; correlation analysis; correlation coefficient; Cronbach alpha coefficient; disease assessment; distress syndrome; factorial analysis; female; Greece; Greek version of Mini Tinnitus Questionnaire; human; internal consistency; major clinical study; male; Multidimensional Health Locus of Control scale; Perceived Stress Scale; priority journal; public hospital; reliability; screening test; test retest reliability; tinnitus; validation process; variance; classification; middle aged; psychology; questionnaire; tinnitus; validation study; very elderly, Adult; Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Female; Greece; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; Surveys and Questionnaires; Tinnitus
