TY - JOUR AU - Peter, Nicole AU - Kleinjung, Tobias AU - Horat, Lukas AU - Schmidt-Weitmann, Sabine AU - Meyer, Martin AU - Büchi, Stefan AU - Weidt, Steffi PY - 2016 DA - 2016/03/22 TI - Validation of PRISM (Pictorial Representation of Illness and Self Measure) as a novel visual assessment tool for the burden of suffering in tinnitus patients JO - Health and Quality of Life Outcomes SP - 47 VL - 14 IS - 1 AB - Chronic subjective tinnitus is a frequent condition that affects the subject’s quality of life. The lack of objective measures of tinnitus necessitates the use of self-reporting and often time-consuming questionnaires for evaluating tinnitus severity. The Pictorial Representation of Illness and Self Measure (PRISM) is a two dimensional pictorial method to assess the burden of suffering. Patients illustrate their burden of suffering by the distance from a “self” to an illness circle, whereby a shorter distance indicates a higher burden of suffering. The aim of this prospective observational study was to validate the burden of suffering measured with PRISM in tinnitus patients by comparing it with different standardized questionnaires currently used in tinnitus evaluation. SN - 1477-7525 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12955-016-0454-2 DO - 10.1186/s12955-016-0454-2 ID - Peter2016 ER -