Development and Psychometric Properties of MisoQuest—A New Self-Report Questionnaire for Misophonia

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• Item Type: #journalArticle
• Authors: Marta Siepsiak, Andrzej Śliwerski, Wojciech Łukasz Dragan
• Date: 2020-03-10
• Date Added: 2020-09-02
• URL: https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/17/5/1797
• DOI: 10.3390/ijerph17051797
• Cite key: siepsiakDevelopmentPsychometricProperties2020
• Topics: Misophonia, primary Resources
• Tags: #Misophonia, #Bare-bones-review-🦴
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Abstract

Background: Misophonia is a condition related to experiencing psychophysiological sensations when exposed to specific sound triggers. In spite of progress in research on the subject, a fully validated questionnaire assessing misophonia has not been published yet. The goal of this study was to create and validate a new questionnaire to measure misophonia. Methods: MisoQuest is based on the diagnostic criteria proposed by Schröder et al. in 2013, with minor changes implemented by the authors of MisoQuest. A total of 705 participants took part in the study, completing the online questionnaires. Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) and analyses using the Item Response Theory (IRT) were performed. Internal consistency was evaluated with Cronbach’s alpha. Results: The reliability of the MisoQuest was excellent (α = 0.955). The stability at five weeks was strong. There was a significant difference in results between people classified as those with misophonia and those without misophonia. Conclusions: MisoQuest has good psychometric values and can be helpful in the identification of misophonia. A deeper analysis showed that certain triggers might be more specific for people with misophonia. Consideration of violent behavior in response to misophonic triggers as a symptom of misophonia was undermined.

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• Development and Psychometric Properties of MisoQuest—A New Self-Report Questionnaire for Misophonia - Article Review- Siepsiak development and psychometric properties..-zotero note

• Tags: #Misophonia, #Bare-bones-review-🦴
• Related: raw_data2.csv, 60_items.docx, questionnaire_MisoQuest_ENG_PL.doc, raw_data1.csv, raw_data3_stability.csv
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Article Review- Siepsiak- development and psychometric properties.. 

[NOTE: NOTE THAT THIS WAS ONLY EVER GIVEN A BARE BONES REVIEW. FOR A MORE IN DEPTH UNDERSTANDING OF THIS STUDY, A FULL REVIEW IS S****TILL NEEDED]

Pick up on page 10 ( fir bare bones run)

Background/purpose: aimed to create a new , and fully validated questionnaire to measure Misophonia.

Study design:-

• data collected via online questionnaires.
• analysis included exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and the use of the Item Response Theory (IRT)
• 2 phase construction ( two diff samples)
• part 1-
• part 2-

Participants/samples-

• part 1:
• part 2:
• total: 383 people with and 322 people without sound issues

Measures-

• MisoQuest-

new Measurement of Misophonia created by the authors. consists of 14 items organized within one factor.

The criteria used requires anger response to be immediate, which will likely cause many people to fail to be dxed as miso that would be dxd with other tools. however, those who are dxed with this tool will be more homogeneous.then with others.

is the first fully validated Misophonia questionnaire

major Differences from other Misophonia measurements include:

not being based on OCD measures
no Questions about time consumed by triggers
respondent's are not asked directly about Misophonic sounds as it is not looking at intensity, but looking to screen for Misophonia.

construction was based on Criteria from Schröder et al., 2013. with some minor changes these include:

extending possible triggers from only human sounds to all kinds of sounds
role of anger is emphasized as result of
included a question on irritation, and several on unpleasant emotions.
seperate items related to sounds ( human vs nonhuman) were created

Procedure-

results-

Discuss/limits-

• interesting findings-
• limits-

can not draw conclusions about prevalence of misophonia from this study
was developed and tested in Poland and as such all psychometric properties are only validated for the polish populations
did not test convergent validity with existing measures due to concerns about the methods of those measures.
did not test divergent validity with measures for hyperacusis due to lack of evidence of comorbidity.
only tested auditory triggers, did not like at visual triggers.
not enough of the sample had a secondary dx to allow for an analysis of the impact of each Dx.
no info given on what sounds were thought of as triggers ( though this was not a goal of the study)

relevance-

• is the first fully validated Misophonia questionnaire
• "results suggest that certain triggers might be more specific to misophonia and that people with misophonia do not respond to misophonic triggers in a violent way."

Misc notes 

exploratory factor analysis- (EFA)

Item Response Theory- (IRT)

interesting description of Misophonia- "Misophonia is a condition related to experiencing psychophysiological sensations when exposed to specific sound triggers"