History and Questionnaires

Langguth, Berthold; Searchfield, Grant D.; Biesinger, E.; Greimel, Karoline V.

doi:10.1007/978-1-60761-145-5_47

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“…The following lists a few key areas of psychometric standards that are important to consider when evaluating and selecting a "candidate" tinnitus assessment tool-most are well-known. For an in-depth discussion of these and other psychometric standards for patient-based outcome measurement development and usage, the interested reader is referred to Fitzpatrick et al (1998), Hyde (2000), and Langguth, Searchfield, et al (2011). One psychometric construct is relatively new to audiology measurements, responsiveness, and will be discussed in more detail below.…”

Section: Psychometric Considerations Prior To Selecting Outcome Measumentioning

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“…Moreover, conducting an item-analysis of self-report questionnaire responses provides clinicians an opportunity to identify specific problems that can be addressed through counseling or referral to another provider. In addition to clinical application, tinnitus questionnaires have utility for the researcher in determining subject selection criteria (Langguth, Searchfield, et al, 2011). For example, inclusion criterion for a study based on a cutoff score for a particular questionnaire would be helpful for selecting only those patients demonstrating a given level of perceived tinnitus activity limitation/participation restriction.…”

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“…The array of questionnaires in Table 4 reflect the range of psychosocial effects of tinnitus, and many are well-suited to capture the aspects of an individual's everyday life that might be negatively affected yet amenable to treatment. For a more detailed discussion of the individual questionnaires summarized in Table 4, the reader is referred to Newman and Sandridge (2004) and Langguth, Searchfield, et al (2011) When used to assess outcome, administration of a self-report questionnaire must be conducted at the initiation of treatment in order to obtain a baseline measurement. Accordingly, a reduction in self-perceived HRQoL (which may or may not be accompanied by changes in tinnitus impairment) would be reflective of the subjective benefit obtained from a particular tinnitus treatment (e.g., sound therapy, medication, cognitive behavioral therapy [CBT]).…”

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Assessing Outcomes of Tinnitus Intervention

Newman

Sandridge

Jacobson³

2014

J Am Acad Audiol

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Although psychometrically robust measures of tinnitus HRQoL do exist, there is no unanimity in, for example, what tests should be included in the tinnitus assessment, and how studies of HRQoL should be conducted. The current authors suggest that future studies employ more rigorous designs and contain (minimally) the following characteristics: (1) utilization of randomized control groups and blinding; (2) appropriate statistical testing including "dropouts" that should be used in an "intention to treat" analysis rather than elimination from the final data set; (3) long-term follow-up assessment to evaluate responsiveness; (4) appropriate inclusion criteria to avoid "ceiling" and "floor" effects; and (5) suitable sample sizes based on the application of power analyses.

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Section: Psychometric Considerations Prior To Selecting Outcome Measumentioning

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Section: Disease/condition-specific Measuresmentioning

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Section: Disease/condition-specific Measuresmentioning

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Assessing Outcomes of Tinnitus Intervention

Newman

Sandridge

Jacobson³

2014

J Am Acad Audiol

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“…A patient's awareness of tinnitus in daily life can be measured using an analogue scale like those used for ratings of loudness. Several tinnitus questionnaires have individual items and subscales that assess annoyance and intrusiveness of tinnitus [108], which are relevant to the concepts of attention and awareness but probably also assess loudness and emotional components. Separating out these components is important as treatments might affect one dimension more than another and because our ability to validate the concept that tinnitus alters the function of multiple neural networks depends on the ability to disassociate these components of tinnitus.…”

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Methodological aspects of clinical trials in tinnitus: A proposal for an international standard

Landgrebe

Azevedo²,

Baguley

et al. 2012

Journal of Psychosomatic Research

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Chronic tinnitus is a common condition with a high burden of disease. While many different treatments are used in clinical practice, the evidence for the efficacy of these treatments is low and the variance of treatment response between individuals is high. This is most likely due to the great heterogeneity of tinnitus with respect to clinical features as well as underlying pathophysiological mechanisms. There is a clear need to find effective treatment options in tinnitus, however, clinical trials differ substantially with respect to methodological quality and design. Consequently, the conclusions that can be derived from these studies are limited and jeopardize comparison between studies. Here, we discuss our view of the most important aspects of trial design in clinical studies in tinnitus and make suggestions for an international methodological standard in tinnitus trials. We hope that the proposed methodological standard will stimulate scientific discussion and will help to improve the quality of trials in tinnitus.

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“…We see VAS as a tool that could allow the clinician to quickly gauge the loudness of tinnitus, its annoyance, the distress it is causing, and how well the patient is coping with the condition. Such a screening tool would allow the level of tinnitus perceived by the patient and their reaction to it to be estimated based solely on a few questions -although, of course, a detailed quantitative assessment of tinnitus severity would still require the available questionnaires [Langguth et al, 2011].…”

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Visual Analogue Scales as a Tool for Initial Assessment of Tinnitus Severity: Psychometric Evaluation in a Clinical Population

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The aim of this study was to evaluate the psychometric properties of patient-reported visual analogue scale (VAS) ratings. All of the participants (100 Polish-speaking adults) completed a Tinnitus Functional Index (TFI) once and a 4-component VAS twice over a period of 3 days. Spearman’s correlation coefficients between the VAS score and global TFI ranged from ρ = 0.52 for VAS-coping (VAS-C) to ρ = 0.81 for VAS-annoyance (VAS-A). Using the Bland-Altman method, the agreement ranged from 93% for VAS-A to 96% for VAS-distress (VAS-D). Interclass correlation coefficients ranged from 0.67 for VAS-C to 0.90 for VAS-A. The VAS cutoff points representing significant tinnitus severity ranged from 45 points for VAS-C to 66 points for VAS-D. VAS scales are a valid and reliable brief screening tool for obtaining quick information about tinnitus.

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History and Questionnaires

Cited by 13 publications

References 46 publications

Assessing Outcomes of Tinnitus Intervention

Assessing Outcomes of Tinnitus Intervention

Methodological aspects of clinical trials in tinnitus: A proposal for an international standard

Visual Analogue Scales as a Tool for Initial Assessment of Tinnitus Severity: Psychometric Evaluation in a Clinical Population

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