The Tinnitus handicap inventory as a screening test for psychiatric comorbidity in patients with tinnitus

Psychosomatics

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 248-256

  Salviati, Massimo ^a   Macrì, Francesco ^a   Terlizzi, Samira ^a   Melcore, Claudia ^a   Provenzano, Alessandra ^a   Capparelli, Emilia ^a   Altissimi, Giancarlo ^a   Cianfrone, Giancarlo ^a  

^a POLICLINICO UMBERTO I   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYCLOTHYMIA; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DYSTHYMIA; FEMALE; GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER; GOLD STANDARD; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL PATIENT; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; PANIC; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PSYCHOMETRY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SCREENING TEST; SELF REPORT; SENSIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOMATIZATION; SYMPTOM CHECKLIST 90; TINNITUS; TINNITUS HANDICAP INVENTORY;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; CATASTROPHIZATION; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; TINNITUS;

EID: 84877816080     PISSN: 00333182     EISSN: 15457206     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psym.2012.05.007     Document Type: Article

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