Hyperacusis Questionnaire as a Tool for Measuring Hypersensitivity to Sound in a Tinnitus Research Population

Table 1

Descriptive statistics for the study measures.

Questionnaire/subscale	Number of items	Total range	Descriptive statistics		Reliability
			Mean	SD	Range
Hyperacusis Questionnaire [31]	14	0–42	14.9	8.0	0–37	0.88	264
Attentional	4	0–12	4.0	2.7	0–10	0.71
Social	6	0–18	6.1	3.7	0–18	0.75
Emotional	4	0–12	4.7	3.0	0–12	0.77
Tinnitus Handicap Inventory (THI) [46]	25	0–100	35.0	21.6	0–94		115
Tinnitus Handicap Questionnaire (THQ) [45]	27	0–100	37.9	17.6	5.6–88.9		195
Beck’s Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II) [47]	21	0–63	7.9	7.2	0–30		54
Beck’s Depression Inventory-Fast Screen (BDI-FS) [49]	7	0–21	2.0	2.7	0–14		142
Beck’s Anxiety Inventory (BAI) [48, 55]	21	0–63	7.0	6.9	0–43		200
Uncomfortable loudness levels at 1 kHz (dB HL)	—	—	87.8	14.3	60–120		40

The maximum score is 42 for the HQ, 100 for THI and THQ, 63 for BDI and BAI, and 21 for the BDI-FS. The reliability alpha () is presented for the HQ total and subscale scores. = effective samples.