PREVALENCE AND CONSISTENCY PREDICTION OF REACTION FOR MISOPHONIA AMONG MILLENNIALS

Akshya.P; Anita Phoebe Ivvah.P; Sujitha.R; R.Sundaresan

Volume : X, Issue : IV, April - 2020

PREVALENCE AND CONSISTENCY PREDICTION OF REACTION FOR MISOPHONIA AMONG MILLENNIALS

Akshya. P, Anita Phoebe Ivvah. P, Sujitha. R, R. Sundaresan

Abstract :

Misophonia is an under – investigated condition which is often typified as an extreme sensitivity to specific low volume sounds and images that elicit an intense physiological and emotional response (Jastreboff and Jastreboff, 2002). Those sounds are quite common in home, colleges and in social environment; it creates an adverse effect on individual’s social, family, mental – physical health and personal life. The main aim of the study is to predict the prevalence and consistency of reaction for misophonia among millennials. Fifty millennials aged 18–25 years were included in the study. Brain basis of misophonia, a self–evaluation questionnaire (Kumar,2017) was given and the participants were asked to self–evaluate and the results were statically analyzed, which reveals that among 50 millennials, 12 minimal, 13 mild, 9 moderate, 5 severe and 11 very severe misophonic prevalence were noted and documented. Reactions such as irritation, anger, closure of ears and avoiding the situation were most the common consistent responses were noted in association with misophonia.