Development and Psychometric Properties of MisoQuest—A New Self-Report Questionnaire for Misophonia

Siepsiak, Marta; Śliwerski, Andrzej; Dragan, Wojciech Ł.

doi:10.3390/ijerph17051797

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“…Results slightly below or above the cutoff for misophonia should be evaluated carefully, especially in populations of patients with psychiatric diagnoses. MisoQuest was created with an aim to identify people whose quality of life is significantly lower because of misophonia [ 30 ], and apparently, it captures more severe cases. Further assessment of validity of MisoQuest is needed on the general population.…”

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“…Misophonia was identified using both the MisoQuest questionnaire [ 30 ] and a semi-structured interview based on Schröder et al’s diagnostic criteria for misophonia [ 6 ]. During the interview, the diagnostician asked whether the patients agree or not with statements (see Supplementary File S1 ) derived directly from the diagnostic criteria.…”

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“…It has excellent psychometric properties and, therefore, was suitable for the purposes of this study. Previously [ 30 ], the cutoff for clinically significant misophonia symptoms was not specified. In this study, we proposed a cutoff of 61 out of 70 points.…”

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“…Revealing this relationship could be an additional cue on possible mechanisms underlying misophonia. Additionally, we aimed to assess the external validity of MisoQuest [ 30 ], a new questionnaire for assessing misophonia.…”

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Prevalence of Misophonia and Correlates of Its Symptoms among Inpatients with Depression

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Misophonia is an underexplored condition that significantly decreases the quality of life of those who suffer from it. It has neurological and physiological correlates and is associated with a variety of psychiatric symptoms; however, a growing body of data suggests that it is a discrete disorder. While comorbid diagnoses among people with misophonia have been a matter of research interest for many years there is no data on the frequency of misophonia among people with psychiatric disorders. This could be the next step to reveal additional mechanisms underlying misophonia. Until recently, the use of a variety of non-validated questionnaires and the dominance of internet-based studies have been also a major obstacles to a proper definition of misophonia. A total of 94 inpatients diagnosed with depression were assessed for misophonia with face-to-face interviews as well as with MisoQuest—a validated misophonia questionnaire. The prevalence of misophonia among these patients and the congruence of MisoQuest with face-to-face interviews were evaluated. Additionally, the patients filled in a series of questionnaires that measured a variety of psychiatric symptoms and psychological traits. Anxiety, depression, impulsivity, somatic pain, vegetative symptoms, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms, gender, and age were analyzed in relation to the severity of symptoms of misophonia. Between 8.5 to 12.76% of inpatients with depression were diagnosed with misophonia (depending on measurement and inclusion criteria). MisoQuest accuracy was equal to 92.55%, sensitivity-66.67% and specificity-96.34%. Severity of misophonia symptoms was positively correlated to the greatest extent with anxiety. Moderate positive correlation was also found between severity of misophonia symptoms and depressive symptoms, intrusions, and somatic pain; a weak positive correlation was found between severity of misophonia and non-planning impulsivity, motor impulsivity, avoidance, and vegetative symptoms. There was no relationship between the severity of misophonia symptoms and attentional impulsivity or the age of participants.

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“…Siepsiak et al 13 chose this cut-off by subtracting one standard deviation (SD = 4.3) from the mean total score of misophonics (mean = 65.72). To verify this cut-off, we performed a Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) 14 analysis of data from Siepsiak et al 11 (Supplementary Data "raw_data2.csv") and found that a cut-off of 61 was optimal in separating MisoQuest total scores of controls (n=254) from scores of misophonics (n=61).…”

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A Psychoacoustic Test for Misophonia Assessment

Enzler

Loriot

Fournier

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Misophonia is a condition where a strong arousal response is triggered when hearing specific human generated sounds, like chewing, and/or repetitive tapping noises, like pen clicking. It is diagnosed with clinical interviews and questionnaires since no psychoacoustic tools exist to assess its presence. The present study was aimed at developing and testing a new assessment tool for misophonia. The method was inspired by an approach we have recently developed for hyperacusis. It consisted of presenting subjects (n=253) with misophonic, pleasant, and unpleasant sounds in an online experiment. The task was to rate them on a pleasant to unpleasant visual analog scale. Subjects were labeled as misophonics (n=78) or controls (n=55) by using self-report questions and a misophonia questionnaire, the MisoQuest. There was a significant difference between controls and misophonics in the median global rating of misophonic sounds. On the other hand, median global rating of unpleasant, and pleasant sounds did not differ significantly. We selected a subset of the misophonic sounds to form the core discriminant sounds of misophonia (CDSMiso). A metric: the CDS score, was used to quantitatively measure misophonia, both with a global score and with subscores. The latter could specifically quantify aversion towards different sound sources/events, i.e., mouth, breathing/nose, throat, and repetitive sounds. A receiver operating characteristic analysis showed that the method accurately classified subjects with and without misophonia (accuracy = 91 %). The present study suggests that the psychoacoustic test we have developed can be used to assess misophonia reliably and quickly.

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