title: 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: OBJECTIVE
  Validation of the Greek version of Mini Tinnitus Questionnaire (Mini-TQ-GR) as a Brief Screening Test for Assessment of Tinnitus-related Distress.
  
  
  METHODS
  Questionnaire study.
  
  
  METHODS
  401 General Military Hospital of Athens/Department of Audiology - Neurootology, Athens, Greece.
  
  
  METHODS
  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.
  
  
  METHODS
  Mini-TQ-GR, compared to PSS 14 and MΗLoC.
  
  
  RESULTS
  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).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This study demonstrated that the Mini-TQ-GR has good internal consistency and reliability becoming a useful, validated measurement tool for tinnitus-induced distress.
authors: Postgraduate Course Stress Management and Health Promotion, School of Medicine, University of Athens, Athens, Greece.|Department of Audiology - Neurootology, 401 General Military Hospital of Athens, Athens, Greece.
authors: G
authors: G
authors: Panagiotopoulos
authors: Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Athens, Greece.
authors: M
authors: M
authors: Galanakis
authors: Postgraduate Course Stress Management and Health Promotion, School of Medicine, University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
authors: L
authors: L
authors: Varvogli
authors: Postgraduate Course Stress Management and Health Promotion, School of Medicine, University of Athens, Athens, Greece.|Aghia Sophia Children's Hospital, University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
authors: G
authors: G
authors: Chrousos
authors: Postgraduate Course Stress Management and Health Promotion, School of Medicine, University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
authors: C
authors: C
authors: Darviri
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D005260:Female; D006115:Greece; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014012:Tinnitus / Q000145:classification* / Q000523:psychology*