Dias Adriano, Cordeiro Ricardo, Corrente José Eduardo
Faculdade de Medicina de Botucatu, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Botucatu, SP, Brasil.
Rev Saude Publica. 2006 Aug;40(4):706-11. doi: 10.1590/s0034-89102006000500022.
The Tinnitus Handicap Inventory is a questionnaire for assessing the impact of tinnitus by quantifying psychoemotional and functional problems it causes. The objective of the study was to validate the Brazilian Portuguese translation of this questionnaire, named Questionario de Gravidade do Zumbido.
The questionnaire was applied to 135 individuals with tinnitus from two audiology clinics in Bauru, Southeastern Brazil, referred for audiologic evaluation. Its internal consistency was evaluated by Cronbach'fs alpha coefficients comparing the Brazilian version to the original instrument.
It was found good reliability for scales (0.76<alpha<0.85) and for the whole questionnaire, which global consistency value (alpha=0.93) was identical to the original instrument.
The results suggest that the Brazilian version of the questionnaire can be used in clinical practice to evaluate day-to-day difficulties caused by tinnitus in individuals who are aware of that.
耳鸣障碍量表是一种通过量化耳鸣引起的心理情绪和功能问题来评估耳鸣影响的问卷。本研究的目的是验证该问卷的巴西葡萄牙语翻译版，即耳鸣严重程度问卷。
该问卷应用于巴西东南部包鲁市两家听力诊所的135名耳鸣患者，这些患者因听力评估前来就诊。通过比较巴西版与原版问卷的克朗巴赫α系数来评估其内部一致性。
发现各分量表（0.76<α<0.85）以及整个问卷具有良好的信度，其整体一致性值（α=0.93）与原版问卷相同。
结果表明，该问卷的巴西版可用于临床实践，以评估耳鸣患者日常所面临的困难。
