An Automated Online Assessment for Misophonia: The Sussex Misophonia Scale for Adults
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ObjectiveMisophonia is an unusually strong aversion to a specific class of sounds – most often human bodily sounds (e.g., chewing, breathing). There are a growing number of misophonia questionnaires, but these are pencil-and-paper tasks (or word/pdf alternatives) which make it difficult to distribute them globally or administer online, and time-consuming to score by hand. Here we present an online interactive assessment tool for misophonia (Sussex Misophonia Scale for Adults; SMS-Adult), embedded in an open-access testing platform with automated scoring, and a results-portal to share data ethically between patient/participants and professionals. Here we describe our tool and platform, alongside validations showing its sensitivity/ specificity, and an exploratory factor analysis revealing its factor structure.MethodsWe programmed our tool online with content management software to give it an interactive interface and automated scoring protocol. We then validated our questionnaire in a sample of n501 adults (mean age 25.34, SD 14.29) including people with and without misophonia. Participants completed our misophonia instrument (SMS-adult) alongside a second measure of misophonia to provide concurrent validity (the Misophonia Questionnaire, MQ; (Wu et al., 2014). ResultsWe examined the Receiver Operator Characteristics (ROC) of our instrument (Mehdi & Ahmadi, 2011) which showed it to be an “excellent” tool for separating misophonics from controls. We provided concurrent validati…
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Children with misophonia showed significantly higher levels of anxiety and obsessive-compulsive traits than children without misophonia.
“the study was able to demonstrate that children with misophonia showed significantly higher levels of anxiety and obsessive-compulsive traits than children without misophonia.”
From Misophonia: A Systematic Review of Current and Future Trends in This Emerging Clinical Field (2022) · cites this paper as [85]
The Sussex Misophonia Scale for Adolescents (SMS-Adolescent) is the only questionnaire that currently assesses misophonia in children/adolescents.
“The most recent questionnaire is the Sussex Misophonia Scale for Adolescents (SMS-Adolescent), the only one that currently assesses misophonia in children/adolescents [85].”
From Misophonia: A Systematic Review of Current and Future Trends in This Emerging Clinical Field (2022) · cites this paper as [85]
Children with misophonia showed significantly poorer health-related quality of life.
“In addition, they also showed that health-related quality of life was significantly poorer.”
From Misophonia: A Systematic Review of Current and Future Trends in This Emerging Clinical Field (2022) · cites this paper as [85]
Misophonia causes an impact and deterioration in the patient's quality of life, both in adults and in children and adolescents.
“Misophonia causes an impact and deterioration in the patient’s quality of life, both in adults and in children and adolescents, according to [84,85].”
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- Rinaldi, L. J., Ward, J., & Simner, J.
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- University of Sussex (GB)
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- Center for Open Science
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- 2021-12-01
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- W4200124267
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- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Sensory Systems › Hearing, Cochlea, Tinnitus, Genetics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › Speech and Hearing › Noise Effects and Management
- Keywords
- misophonia, online assessment tools, automated grading, questionnaire validation, factor structure, sound sensitivity, interpersonal reactivity, pain
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