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

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 Sensitivi...

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Autores principales: KESKİN YILDIZ, Melis, KEMALOĞLU, Yusuf Kemal, TUAÇ, Yetkin, MENGÜ, Güven, KARAMERT, Recep, GÖKDOĞAN, Çağıl
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7379403/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32283896
http://dx.doi.org/10.3906/sag-1908-44
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Sumario: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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