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Fatma Ceyda Akın Öcal1, Hatice Kübra Bozkurt1,2, Ceren Ersöz Ünlü1
1University of Health Sciences Türkiye, Gülhane Training and Research Hospital, Clinic of Otorhinolaryngology, Ankara, Türkiye.
Objective:
This study aimed to evaluate the reliability and validity of the Turkish version of the Tinnitus Primary Function Questionnaire (TPFQ-T).
Methods:
The study was conducted with 103 patients who had been experiencing tinnitus for longer than three months. All participants completed the TPFQ-T, the Beck Anxiety Inventory, the Beck Depression Inventory, the Pittsburgh sleep quality index, the Tinnitus Handicap Inventory and the magnitude estimation.
Results:
Cronbach's alpha was 0.88. Cronbach's alpha was also computed for every one of the four subscales: a=0.67 for sleep, a=0.72 for hearing, a=0.86 for concentration, and a=0.75 for emotion. There was a correlation between the overall score obtained from the TPFQ-T and its subcategories and other questionnaires measuring corresponding factors.
Conclusion:
Overall, the findings of this investigation show that the TPFQ-T is both reliable and valid. As a result, the current translated version of the TPFQ-T is suitable for patients who speak Turkish as their first language and serves as an effective tinnitus questionnaire.
