The primary objective of the project is to characterise and measure the auditory perception of subjects with misophonia compared with the auditory perception of control subjects.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
110
Natural sounds will be presented at different decibels (dB), and the subject will be asked to rate the pleasantness/unpleasantness of the sound heard on a visual analogue scale, as well as the loudness (subjective intensity) of the sound heard.
interview, designed under the supervision of a psychologist and using the methodology of micro-phenomenological interviews the aim of these interviews is to gain access to the participants' experiences, as they describe them in the first person, during misophonic episodes
Home exposure is a practice whereby participants voluntarily subject themselves to SMs in a controlled environment. Participants will be asked to complete two tasks: firstly, they will have to expose themselves to all 10 sounds at least twice a week; secondly, they will have to record the annoyance felt for each sound and the subjective loudness (loudness) of each SM using VAS.
Centre de Recherche en Psychologie et Neuroscience (CRPN)
Marseille, France
CEntre de Recherche et d'Innovation en Audiologie Humaine
Paris, France
score on a visual analogue scale from 0 (pleasant sound) to 10 (unpleasant sound)
sounds will be presented at different decibels and the subject will be asked to rate the pleasantness/unpleasantness of the sound on a visual analogue scale
Time frame: 1 week after enrollment
score on a visual analogue scale from 0 (very low intensity) to 10 (extremely intense)
sounds will be presented at different decibels and the subject will be asked to rate the intensity of the sound on a visual analogue scale
Time frame: 1 week after enrollment
Measuring the consistency of the psychoacoustic test
consistency measured by calculating Cronbach's alpha coefficient
Time frame: 1 week after enrollement
the number of redundant themes in the semi-structured interviews
the interviews consist of open-ended questions covering different aspects of the experiences of misophone subjects
Time frame: 1 month after enrollment
score on a visual analogue scale from 0 (very little discomfort) to 10 (extreme discomfort)
Time frame: 1 month after enrollment and 2 months after enrollment
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