Brazilian Portuguese Language version of the “Tinnitus Handicap Inventory”: Validity and Reproducibility

Abstract

The Brazilian Portuguese version of THI is a valid and reproducible tool used to quantify how tinnitus impacts the life quality of those Brazilian patients who complain of this symptom.

Validation of a French (Québec) version of the Tinnitus Handicap Inventory

“…The total score ranges from 0 to 63 points, and a higher score indicates more severe depressive symptoms. Theoretically, the depression score should be correlated with the level of tinnitus-related annoyance, at least that is what previous data indicated (Crocetti et al, 2009;Kim et al, 2002;Kleinjung et al, 2007;Newman et al, 1996;Petersen Schmidt et al, 2006;Zachariae et al, 2000). All correlations are signifi cant at the p Ͻ .001 level.…”

“…translated into and validated in Spanish (Herr à iz et al, 2001), Danish (Zachariae et al, 2000), Italian (Crocetti et al, 2009;Monzani et al, 2008;Passi et al, 2008), German (Kleinjung et al, 2007), Korean (Kim et al, 2002), Brazilian Portuguese (Alves Ferreira et al, 2005;Dias et al, 2006;Petersen Schmidt et al, 2006), Turkish (Aksoy et al, 2007), Cantonese (Kam et al, 2009), Hebrew (Oron et al, 2011), Mandarin (Meng et al, 2012), and Thai (Limviriyakul & Supavanich, 2012). Moreover, our clinical experience suggests that, unlike similar types of scales, the THI introduces very little bias related to hearing loss.…”

A confirmatory factor analytic validation of the Tinnitus Handicap Inventory

“…Moreover construct validity of this measure was examined thoroughly in populations of several countries. There seems to be international agreement that the tinnitus-related handicap assessed with the THI total score is highly correlated with self-ratings of tinnitus severity, tinnitus acceptance, depression or anxiety, and self-reported health status [39,43,44,46,48,51,56]. Low to moderate correlations with the THI total score were found between age, tinnitus duration, audiometrically derived measures (e.g., tinnitus pitch), and sleeping difficulties [39,44,46].…”

National linguistic validation of the Tinnitus Handicap Inventory (THI). Assessment of disability caused by tinnitus in chilean spanish-speaking population

“…Other authors have published experiences with questionnaires as the Beck's scale of depression, of frequent use in psychology, to estimate in an objective way the disability produced for tinnitus 18 . These measurements allow to quantify of a reproducible form, although subjective, the severity and the tolerance of a tinnitus.…”