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Psychometric Assessment of Tinnitus Patients Within Clinical Practice Settings

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Tinnitus is a complex phenomenon with various mechanisms of origin. Multimodal and interdisciplinary treatment is the most effective form of treatment for patients with chronic tinnitus. To target treatment efforts to individual patients, a careful monitoring of the treatment success is warranted. One way to assist the healthcare providers is the use of validated psychometric instruments to assess the patient self-reported health status. However, an empirical systematic assessment of the treatment success from the patients’ perspective is still scarce in clinical practice settings. Within this chapter we discuss potential reasons for this situation, introduce some commonly used assessment instruments, and highlight potential future developments of patient-reported health assessments within clinical practice settings.

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Abbreviations

BAI:

Beck Anxiety Inventory

BDI:

Beck Depression Inventory

CBT:

Cognitive behavior therapy

DSM:

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders

HADS:

Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale

PROM:

Patient-reported outcome measure

PSQ:

Perceived Stress Questionnaire

PSS:

Perceived Stress Scale

STAI:

State-Trait Anxiety Inventory

TQ:

Tinnitus Questionnaire (German version-TF)

TRQ:

Tinnitus Reaction Questionnaire

TRT:

Tinnitus retraining therapy

VAS:

Visual analog scale

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Brüggemann, P., Rose, M. (2017). Psychometric Assessment of Tinnitus Patients Within Clinical Practice Settings. In: Szczepek, A., Mazurek, B. (eds) Tinnitus and Stress. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58397-6_7

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