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

Abstract

This study demonstrated that the Mini-TQ-GR has good internal consistency and reliability becoming a useful, validated measurement tool for tinnitus-induced distress.

Validation of the Italian Tinnitus Questionnaire Short Form (TQ 12-I) as a Brief Test for the Assessment of Tinnitus-Related Distress: Results of a Cross-Sectional Multicenter-Study

“…We initially tested the proposed factor solution of Panagiotopoulos et al (2015) by factor analysis (main component analysis and maximum likelihood). Bartlett’s test of sphericity [χ 2 (66) = 827.9, p < 0.001] was significant and the Kaiser–Meyer–Olkin measure verified the sampling adequacy for the analysis (KMO = 0.85).…”

“…For use in busy clinical practice, a questionnaire for the assessment of tinnitus severity should not only be psychometrically and clinically validated, but also quickly to use to minimize the patients’ burden. For the TQ 12 good psychometric and clinical values have been reported in several languages ( Hiller and Goebel, 2004 ; Cerejeira et al, 2009 ; Vanneste et al, 2011 ; Kam, 2012 ; Zeman et al, 2012 ; Panagiotopoulos et al, 2015 ). Thus far the psychometric properties of the Italian translation of the TQ 12 have not been investigated.…”

“…The floor and ceiling effect, defined as the highest and lowest 15% of the scale were also calculated. A factor analyses (maximum likelihood, direct oblimin) with a fixed number of factors was conducted to investigate the three-factor solution proposed by Panagiotopoulos et al (2015) . Based on the results of this initial analysis an additional exploratory factor analysis was calculated.…”

“…The TQ 12 was validated in German ( Hiller and Goebel, 2004 ), Portuguese ( Cerejeira et al, 2009 ), Greek ( Panagiotopoulos et al, 2015 ), Chinese ( Kam, 2012 ), Dutch ( Vanneste et al, 2011 ), and Arabic ( El Beaino and Eter, 2017 ). Good psychometric properties were reported for all of the translated versions of the TQ 12: the psychometric analyses across various validations showed good reliability (internal consistency: α = 0.86–0.90; retest-reliability: k = 0.89–0.91) and high correlation with the TQ total score ( r = 0.90–0.93) ( Hiller and Goebel, 2004 ; Kam, 2012 ; Zeman et al, 2012 ; Panagiotopoulos et al, 2015 ). The TQ 12 total score allows the classification of the patients as compensated (0–7), moderately distressed (8–12), severely distressed (13–18), and most severely distressed (19–24) ( Hiller and Goebel, 2004 ).…”

“…The TQ 12 total score allows the classification of the patients as compensated (0–7), moderately distressed (8–12), severely distressed (13–18), and most severely distressed (19–24) ( Hiller and Goebel, 2004 ). Yet, conflicting evidence was found for the factorial structure: most of the validations presumed a single global factor, whereas Panagiotopoulos et al (2015) reported a three factor solution (Distress, Health pre-occupation, and Depression). So far, neither the TQ nor the TQ 12 have been validated in Italian.…”