Development of the Tinnitus Response Scales: Factor analyses, subscale reliability and validity analyses

Title
Development of the Tinnitus Response Scales: Factor analyses, subscale reliability and validity analyses
Publication Date
2013
Author(s)
Croft, Caroline
Brown, Rhonda
Thorsteinsson, Einar B
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2065-1989
Email: ethorste@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:ethorste
Noble, William G
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
SUNY Downstate Medical Center
Place of publication
United States of America
DOI
10.5935/0946-5448.20130007
UNE publication id
une:15789
Abstract
Patients suffering with tinnitus are often advised to accept the noise, but few studies have examined what tinnitus acceptance entails. The present project developed and tested a new instrument to assess the mindfulness based constructs of acceptance, control, and defeat, in relation to the experience of chronic tinnitus. Method: Initial scale development involved an expert panel. Participants were recruited from the general population and tinnitus support organizations and complete the first version of the Tinnitus Response Scales (TRS) and measures of tinnitus coping, severity and distress, general distress, illness cognitions, and tinnitus and health characteristics. Results: Three interpretable TRS factors were found: acceptance, control and defeat (an Internet sample, N = 273) and confirmed using another sample (hard-copy sample, N = 278). Factors were shown to have high internal consistency and test retest reliabilities and differed in terms of their related cognitions, behaviour, and emotional responses to tinnitus, and their tinnitus characteristics. Conclusion: The TRS factors provide an alternative conceptualisation of tinnitus responding. TRS is a brief psychometrically valid measure of tinnitus responding that appears to distinguish between adaptive and non-adaptive responses to tinnitus noise, and should prove useful as a clinical measure.
Link
Citation
International Tinnitus Journal, 18(1), p. 45-56
ISSN
0946-5448
Start page
45
End page
56

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