the relathinship between tinnitus functional index and tinnitus handicap inventory scores in patients with chronic tinnitus

Background and aim: tinnitus can affect daily life. the evaluation of the affected aspects of life quality is highly dependent on the sub-jects’perception. self-report questionnaires have been used to identify these affected aspects. in the present study, the relationship between the persian versions of tinnitus functional index (tfi-p) and tinnitus handicap inventory (thi-p) was investigated.methods: this is a comparative cross-sectional study conducted on 28 hearing-impaired and 27 normal hearing subjects with tinnitus in aged 18−60 years selected according to the inclusion criteria. both groups completed the tfi-p and thi-p.results: there was a significant and relatively strong relationship between the total scores of thi-p and tfi-p (r = 0.65) and also between the emotional subscale of tfi-p and the cata-strophic subscale of thi-p (r = 0.73). more-over, there was a moderate relationship between age factor and total score of tfi-p (r = −0.32), and between the cognitive subscale of tfi-p and age (r = 0.40). however, no significant difference was found between hearing-impaired and normal hearing subjects in terms of the total score and subscale scores of tfi-p. fur-thermore, we found a significant difference bet-ween female and male subjects in terms of the relaxation subscale of tfi-p, and between dura-tion of tinnitus and the quality of life subscale (r = 0.33).conclusion: the scores of the thi-p and tfi-p questionnaires are related to each other and they can be used for measuring the negative effects of tinnitus.