An Automated Online Measure for Misophonia: The <i>Sussex Misophonia Scale for Adults</i>.

ABSTRACT: Misophonia is a sound sensitivity disorder characterized by a strong aversion to specific sounds (e.g., chewing). Here we present the Sussex Misophonia Scale for Adults (SMS-Adult), within an online open-access portal, with automated scoring and results that can be shared ethically with users and professionals. Receiver operator characteristics show our questionnaire to be "excellent" and "good-to-excellent" at classifying misophonia, both when dividing our n = 501 adult participants by recruitment stream (self-declared misophonics vs. general population), and again when dividing them with by a prior measure of misophonia (as misophonics vs. non-misophonics). Factor analyses identified a five-factor structure in our 39 Likert-type items, and these were Feelings/Isol

SUBMITTER: Simner J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11528938 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature