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Silia is a senior lecturer (associate professor) in Psychometrics and Measurement and leader of the Psychometrics Lab, at the Biostatistics & Health Informatics department, IoPPN, KCL, UK. Silia holds a BSc degree in Mathematics, an MSc degree in Biostatistics, and a PhD in Bayesian model comparison for IRT models. Silia is an expert in psychometrics and various methods used in applied biostatistics such as longitudinal data, survival analysis, and structural equation models, among others. 

Silia initiated in 2017 and currently chairs the Misophonia Clinical Academic Research Group and is the principal investigator of the King’s College London S-Five study. The S-Five study aims to develop robust, reliable, and valid assessments for misophonia, to study the prevalence of misophonia in the UK and overseas, to assess the misophonic experience cross-culturally and to facilitate research treatment development for misophonia. The S-Five study is currently expanding through collaborations with academic institutions internationally (such as Germany, Greece, India, Iran, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Singapore, and USA).

Bemerkenswerte veröffentlichte Werke

• Ein nomologisches Netzwerk für Misophonie in zwei deutschen Stichproben unter Verwendung des S-Fünf-Modells für Misophonie [December 2022]

• Emotion processes predicting outbursts and functional impact in misophonia [July 2022]

• Misophonia in the UK: norms of the selective sound sensitivity five factor model (S-Five) for misophonia and prevalence of the disorder using a large sample representative of the UK population [April 2022]

• Menschen mit Misophonie zuhören: Die Mehrfachdimensionen der Schallintoleranz mit einem neuen psychometrischen Werkzeug, dem S-Five, in einer großen Stichprobe von Personen, die sich mit der Erkrankung identifizieren, erforschen [October 2021]

• Untersuchung der Item-Response-Theorie zu hörlichen Auslösern der Misophonie [October 2021]

Additional Resources

Dr. Vitoratou’s website

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