Bhatt EI - Researcher evaluated the prevalence and associated risk factors of tinnitus and tinnitus-related handicap in a sample of college-aged students. Tinnitus experience and its adverse influence in daily living were reported by a substantial portion of college-aged individuals despite the reluctance to complain about tinnitus. Findings suggested that tinnitus perception could be triggered by the environmental and health-related factors, while self-reported psychoacoustic descriptors of tinnitus could explain perceived tinnitus-related handicap in daily living by college-aged individuals.