Table 1. Ten widely used tinnitus questionnaires for outcome measurement.
| Questionnaire name | Authors and year | Number of items | Response options for each item | Psychometric Properties | Available (validated) Languages1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tinnitus Questionnaire | Hallam et al., 1988 [99] | 52 | 3 levels: true, partly true, not true | Internal Consistency Reliability: Cronbach's alpha=.91-.95 Test-Retest Reliability: r=.91-.94 | English, German, Dutch, French, Chinese |
| Mini TQ | Hiller&Goebel, 2004 [100] | 12 | 3 levels: true, partly true, not true | Internal Consistency Reliability:Not available Test-Retest Reliability: r=.89 | German, Portugese |
| Tinnitus Handicap Questionnaire | Kuk et al., 1990 [98] | 27 | 100 levels: 100 = strongly agree, 0 = strongly disagree | Internal Consistency Reliability: Cronbach's alpha=.95 (total score) Test-Retest Reliability: r=.89 (total score) | English, French |
| Tinnitus Severity Scale | Sweetow and Levy, 1990 [118] | 15 | 4 levels: wording of response options varies between items | Internal Consistency Reliability: Cronbach's alpha= not available Test-Retest Reliability: r=.86 | English |
| Subjective Tinnitus Severity Scale | Halford and Anderson, 1991 [119] | 16 | 2 levels: yes/no | Internal Consistency Reliability: Cronbach's alpha=.84 Test-Retest Reliability: not available | English, Dutch, French |
| Tinnitus Reaction Questionnaire | Wilson et al, 1991 [101] | 26 | 5 levels: not at all, a little of the time, some of the time, a good deal of the time, almost all the time | Internal Consistency Reliability: Cronbach's alpha=.96 Test-Retest Reliability: r=.88 | English, French |
| Tinnitus Severity Index | Meikle, 1995 [120] | 12 | 5 levels2: never, rarely, sometimes, usually, always | Internal Consistency Reliability: Cronbach's alpha>.87 Test-Retest Reliability: not available | English |
| Tinnitus Handicap Inventory | Newman et al., 1996 [97] | 25 | 3 levels: yes, sometimes, no | Internal Consistency Reliability: Cronbach's alpha=.93 Test-Retest Reliability: r=.92 (total score) | English, French, Danish, Spanish, Korean, Portugese, German, Italian, Chinese |
| Tinnitus-Beeinträchtigungs-Fragebogen3 | Greimel et al., 1999; Bankstahl et al. 2012 [121,122] | 12 | 3 levels: never, sometimes, often | Internal Consistency Reliability: Cronbach's alpha=.90 Test-Retest Reliability: r=.92 (total score) | German, English, French, Spanish, Polish, Dutch |
| Tinnitus Functional Index | Meikle, 2012 [105] | 25 | 10 levels | Internal Consistency Reliability: Cronbach's alpha=.97 Test-Retest Reliability: r=.78 (total score) | English |
1
Language, in which the questionnaire has been developed, is given first.
2
Original version of Tinnitus Severity Index used more complex response options: six items had three levels, six items had four levels, with wording of response system options varying between items.
3
A short version of the THI that was first published in a German version.