Psychometric Validation of the New Misophonia Screening List—Child and Youth and AMISOS-Y (Dutch Child- and Parent-Report Versions) for Assessing Misophonia in Youth

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2024年11月14日

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Lotte R. Rappoldt,
Kees J. Kan,
Lenrine Dalmeijer,
Sterre A. Rutten,
Renske van Horen,
Marthe M. van der Pol,
Carola de Wit,
Damiaan Denys,
Nienke C. C. Vulink,
Elisabeth M. W. J. Utens

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Misophonia is a recently identified disorder of decreased sound tolerance that often originates in childhood. Currently, there is a lack of validated questionnaires for screening and assessing misophonia severity in children/adolescents. This paper presents an iterative validation process of two innovative (parallel child-/parent-reported) questionnaires: the Misophonia Screening List—Child and Youth for screening, and the Amsterdam Misophonia Scale—Youth (AMISOS-Y) for assessing misophonia severity in youth. After instrument refinement, we performed ROC curve, reliability, and principal component analyses, and assessed concurrent, convergent and divergent validity, on a combined sample (aged 8–18; clinical sample N = 94 youth, 95 parents; control group screening N = 197 youth, 56 parents; control group AMISOS-Y N = 192 youth, 55 parents). Both questionnaires were unidimensional and displayed excellent psychometric properties (α = 0.95–0.96). Future replication studies are needed in community and clinical samples to contribute to a unified diagnostic framework. Trial registered 09/2021: NL-OMON20775.