Online Data Collection to Evaluate a Theoretical Cognitive Model of Tinnitus

Handscomb, Lucy; Hall, Deborah A.; Shorter, Gillian W; Hoare, Derek J.

doi:10.1044/2016_aja-16-0007

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“…Analysis of all the questionnaires in the survey is planned as a complete evaluation of the cognitive model of tinnitus distress (McKenna et al 2014) using structural equation modeling. For a complete list of questionnaires used, please see Handscomb et al (in press). Ethical approval was granted by the University of Nottingham’s School of Medicine research ethics committee (reference: G13022014 School of Medicine NIHR NHBRU Hearing).…”

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Positive and Negative Thinking in Tinnitus: Factor Structure of the Tinnitus Cognitions Questionnaire

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Objectives:Researchers and clinicians consider thinking to be important in the development and maintenance of tinnitus distress, and altering thoughts or thinking style is an object of many forms of psychological therapy for tinnitus. Those working with people with tinnitus require a reliable, psychometrically robust means of measuring both positive and negative thinking related to it. The Tinnitus Cognitions Questionnaire (TCQ) was designed as such a measure and its authors showed it to be reliable, with good psychometric properties. However, no research teams have yet carried out independent validation. This study aimed to use the TCQ to investigate thinking amongst members of the general population with both bothersome and nonbothersome tinnitus and also to verify its factor structure.Design:Three hundred forty-two members of the public with tinnitus completed the TCQ online or on paper. They also rated their tinnitus on a scale as “not a problem,” “a small problem,” “a moderate problem,” “a big problem,” or a “very big problem.” The authors tested the original factor structure of the TCQ using confirmatory factor analysis and then calculated the mean scores for each item, comparing mean total scores across “problem categories” for the full questionnaire and for the positive and negative subscales.Results:The original two-factor structure of the TCQ was a good fit to the data when the correlation between positive and negative factors was fixed at zero (root mean square error of approximation = 0.064, 90% confidence interval = 0.058 to 0.070). Items pertaining to wishing the tinnitus would go away and despairing that it would ever get better had the highest mean scores. The mean total score for the “no problem” group (M = 31.17, SD = 16.03) was not significantly different from the mean total score for the “small problem” group (M = 34.00, SD = 12.44, p = 0.99). Differences between mean scores for all other groups were statistically significant. For the negative subscale, differences were statistically significant between all problem categories. For the positive subscale, the differences between mean scores were only statistically significant for the “no problem” group (M = 28.40, SD = 17.11) compared with the “moderate problem” group (M = 18.55, SD = 8.64, p = 0.02) and for the “moderate problem” group compared with the “very big problem” group (M = 26.79, SD = 11.66, p = 0.002). Positive and negative factors were uncorrelated (ρ = −0.03.)Conclusions:The TCQ is a valid measure of positive and negative thinking in tinnitus, and the authors recommend its use in research and therapeutic settings. Negative thinking appears to be associated with more problematic tinnitus, but positive thinking is not associated with unproblematic tinnitus, suggesting that reducing negative thinking may be more important than teaching positive thinking in therapy.

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“…Evidence exists that cognitive processes, such as interpretation, attention, and memory, are indeed involved in chronic tinnitus suffering [5,16,60,65,72], and the validity of the cognitive model is currently being tested psychometrically [30].…”

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A multidisciplinary European guideline for tinnitus: diagnostics, assessment, and treatment

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Haider

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“…Based on our QUIET-1 experience, it appeared that people with chronic tinnitus were likely to use the Internet to seek out information about clinical trials of tinnitus; in contrast, experience with CLARITY-1 indicated that people with ARHL were less likely to do so. We note that another tinnitusrelated clinical study successfully recruited at least 26% of its participants using Internet recruitment methods (Handscomb et al 2016), the mode of data collection which was Internet based , could have enhanced the success rate of this recruitment method (Rosa et al 2015). Further research is warranted to determine whether or not internet recruitments can be successful for studies aimed at people with ARHL.…”

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Recruiting ENT and Audiology patients into pharmaceutical trials: evaluating the multi-centre experience in the UK and USA

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Hall

Millar

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International Journal of Audiology

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Online Data Collection to Evaluate a Theoretical Cognitive Model of Tinnitus

Cited by 9 publications

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Positive and Negative Thinking in Tinnitus: Factor Structure of the Tinnitus Cognitions Questionnaire

Positive and Negative Thinking in Tinnitus: Factor Structure of the Tinnitus Cognitions Questionnaire

A multidisciplinary European guideline for tinnitus: diagnostics, assessment, and treatment

Recruiting ENT and Audiology patients into pharmaceutical trials: evaluating the multi-centre experience in the UK and USA

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