Polish Translation and Validation of the Tinnitus Handicap Inventory and the Tinnitus Functional Index.

ABSTRACT: Objective: The need for validated measures enabling clinicians to classify tinnitus patients according to the severity of tinnitus and screen the progress of therapies in our country led us to translate into Polish and to validate two tinnitus questionnaires, namely the Tinnitus Handicap Inventory (THI) and the Tinnitus Functional Index (TFI). Design: The original English versions of the questionnaires were translated into Polish and translated back to English by three independent translators. These versions were then finalized by the authors into a Polish THI (THI-Pl) and a Polish TFI (TFI-Pl). Participants from three laryngological centers in Poland anonymously answered the THI-Pl (N = 98) and the TFI-Pl (N = 108) in addition to the Polish versions of the Cent

SUBMITTER: Wrzosek M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5126044 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature