Validating the Turkish version of the Weinstein noise sensitivity scale: effects of age, sex, and education level | Zendy

Melis Keskin Yıldız | Zendy; Yusuf Kemal Kemaloğlu | Zendy; Yetkin Tuaç | Zendy; Güven Mengü | Zendy; Recep Karamert | Zendy; Çağıl Gökdoğan | Zendy

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Validating the Turkish version of the Weinstein noise sensitivity scale: effects of age, sex, and education level

Author(s) -

Melis Keskin Yıldız,

Yusuf Kemal Kemaloğlu,

Yetkin Tuaç,

Güven Mengü,

Recep Karamert,

Çağıl Gökdoğan

Publication year - 2020

Publication title -

turkish journal of medical sciences

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.277

H-Index - 27

eISSN - 1303-6165

pISSN - 1300-0144

DOI - 10.3906/sag-1908-44

Subject(s) - turkish , medicine , annoyance , audiology , turkish population , noise (video) , scale (ratio) , clinical psychology , cartography , philosophy , linguistics , biochemistry , chemistry , artificial intelligence , computer science , genotype , image (mathematics) , gene , loudness , geography

Background/aim Subjective noise sensitivity (SNS) is not only one of the most important predictors of perceived noise annoyance for the subjects exposed to the noise, but also strongly related with some psychological conditions and poor health perception of the subjects. Weinstein’s Noise Sensitivity Scale (WNSS) is widely used for measuring of SNS.Materials and methods In this study we adapted WNSS to Turkish (Tr-WNSS) and evaluated its psychometric properties and effect of age, sex and education level on SNS.Results The study included 105 males and 105 female subjects between 18 and 55 years of age.Conclusion Our data demonstrated that Tr-WNSS was a reliable, valid, and invariant scale for the Turkish population, and not affected by sex, age and education level.

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