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

Validation of the Greek version of Mini Tinnitus Questionnaire (Mini-TQ-GR) as a Brief Screening Test for Assessment of Tinnitus-related Distress. Questionnaire study. 401 General Military Hospital of Athens/Department of Audiology - Neurootology, Athens, Greece. Three hundred and one participants have anonymously completed the Mini-TQ-GR, comparing it to the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS 14) and Multidimensional Health Locus of Control Scale (MΗLoC) from November 2013 until May 2014. Mini-TQ-GR, compared to PSS 14 and MΗLoC. Factor analysis, has shown that the Mini-TQ-GR includes three main factors (Distress, Health pre-occupation and Depression), which explains the 59.05% of the total variance. The Cronbach alpha index was 0.865 approaching the respective reliability factor of the original validation (0.9). The test-retest correlation (intraclass correlation coefficient) was 0.9 (P < 0.01), close to the results of the original study (0.89). We found a positive correlation between tinnitus and perceived stress (r = 0.349**) and negative correlation between tinnitus and external locus of control (r = -0.124*, r = -0.198**) (chance, others). This study demonstrated that the Mini-TQ-GR has good internal consistency and reliability becoming a useful, validated measurement tool for tinnitus-induced distress.