Completing your Tinnitus Functional Index (TFI)

The first thing to do is to complete your initial TFI (Tinnitus Functional Index):
If you found the CBT4T via the main website www.tinnituseprogram.org, or the courses site courses.tinnituseprogram.org you may have already completed a TFI and sent it in. That's great! No need to do another! 

I ask you to complete your TFI for two reasons:

1. Completing it gives you your starting point. It reflects how you have been coping with tinnitus over the past week to two weeks. It gives you a measure that is used to "measure" how much you progress and improve through using the course. You'll complete them again mid-term and at the end of the course, and your score will have reduced - most commonly by at least 2 of the TFI categories 

2. The second reason is that when you press SEND at the end of the TFI, you receive a copy of your answers, and they also come through to me. I will be working with you after you enrol, so it gives me an idea of how well you are currently coping in terms of tinnitus distress.

3. Once you have enrolled, in addition to your TFI, I also ask that you complete and send in a THI (Tinnitus Handicap Inventory), your GAD-7 that gives a measure of anxiety (you will be asked to complete a second anxiety measure (Anxiety Symptoms Q) should your GAD-7 or PSS indicate being higher than at a mild level), your Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) and also a brief history of what has happened in terms of your tinnitus to date - it is called your Mini-history.