Tinnitus is defined as the conscious perception of an auditory sensation in the absence of any corresponding external stimulus. It is associated with significant negative consequences across multiple domains of an individual's life, namely physical, psychological, cognitive, auditory, social, and financial....
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Discussion
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Clinicians treating Portuguese-speaking patients in Europe now have a validated version of the TFI; consider adopting it to replace informal or non-validated tinnitus assessment tools in that population.
Validated, culturally adapted outcome measures are essential for consistent tinnitus research and clinical benchmarking across different languages and health systems.
- 01The TFI was translated and culturally adapted into European Portuguese.
- 02Psychometric validation confirmed the adapted instrument's reliability and validity.
- 03Published in Acta Medica Portuguesa (2026).
- 04Enables standardised tinnitus outcome measurement for European Portuguese-speaking populations.
- 05Expands the multilingual toolkit of clinically validated tinnitus questionnaires.
The European Portuguese TFI is a valid and reliable instrument for measuring tinnitus functional impact in Portuguese-speaking populations.
studysupported- PMID
- 42697871
- DOI
- 10.20344/amp.24305.
- Journal
- Acta Medica Portuguesa
- Publication type
- research_article
- Evidence level
- 2b
- Population
- European Portuguese-speaking patients with tinnitus
- Intervention
- Translation, cultural adaptation, and psychometric validation of the Tinnitus Functional Index into European Portuguese
Primary outcomes
Psychometric validity of the European Portuguese TFI; Internal consistency and reliability of the adapted instrument