Publications by authors named "Carola de Wit"
Article Synopsis
- Misophonia is a sound sensitivity disorder often starting in childhood, and there are currently no effective questionnaires to assess its severity in youth.
- This study introduced and validated two new questionnaires: the Misophonia Screening List-Child and Youth for screening, and the Amsterdam Misophonia Scale-Youth (AMISOS-Y) for measuring severity.
- The questionnaires were tested on a diverse sample and showed strong psychometric properties (α = 0.95-0.96), but future studies are needed for broader validation in community and clinical settings.
Background: Misophonia is a recently identified disorder in which individuals experience intense, uncontrollable and disproportional irritation, anger or disgust when confronted with specific sounds or stimuli associated with these sounds. Prevalence rates in children and adolescents are currently still to be investigated. The reported average age of onset is around 13 years, in clinical practice children from 8 years old are referred.
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