Study on reliability and validity of the Tinnitus Evaluation Questionnaire

VernacularTitle:耳鸣评价量表的信度与效度研究
Author: Peng LIU ¹ ; Gui-Li XU ; Ming LI ; Zu-Wei CAO ; En-Qin GUO ; Ling-Ling AN ; Nai-Ping WANG ; Jian-Ning ZHANG
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1. 广州中医药大学附属第一医院
Keywords: Tinnitus; Questionnaires; Reproducibility of results
From: Chinese Journal of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery 2012;47(9):716-719
CountryChina
Language:Chinese
Abstract: Objective To investigate the value of the Tinnitus Evaluation Questionnaire(TEQ) in clinical application.Methods Cronbach’s α coefficient was used to examine the reliability of the TEQ internal consistency.Examined the re-measured reliability by the correlation coefficient by two doctors’ 1-3 hours interval questionnaires’ scores.And inspected criteria validity according to the correlation coefficient of the TEQ and Tinnitus Handicap Inventory (THI).Results In the 202 tinnitus patients,the TEQ Cronbach’s α coefficient was 0.76 and re-measured reliability was 0.938.The THI correlation coefficient was 0.769.Among which,99 patients feel tinnitus alleviated obviously after the treatment,the TEQ scores were significantly lower than that before the treatment (t =21.42,P ＜ 0.001 ).Conclusions The TEQ reflects the severity of tinnitus completely,and has preferable reliability and validity.The characteristics are concise,practical and exact.It is worthy of clinical application.