Translation and validation of the Hearing Environments and Reflection on Quality of Life (HEAR-QL) questionnaire for preschool children in Dutch.

IF 1.4 Q2 OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGY

COCHLEAR IMPLANTS INTERNATIONAL Pub Date : 2024-11-01 Epub Date: 2025-01-29 DOI:10.1080/14670100.2024.2440977

Christina Batthyany, Marc van der Schroeff, Jantien Vroegop

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Abstract

Objective: Early diagnosis, intervention and consistent follow-up of hearing loss is of great importance in children, given the broad impact of untreated childhood hearing loss. Currently, no hearing-specific QOL proxy questionnaire exists for preschool children with hearing loss in the Dutch language. Therefore, the aim of this study was to translate and validate the Preschool HEAR-QL questionnaire into Dutch.

Methods: Translation was conducted according the forward-backward procedure. Parents or caregivers of 60 normal-hearing children and 50 children with bilateral hearing loss aged 2-6 years old were invited to digitally complete the questionnaire.

Results: The Preschool HEAR-QL questionnaire showed good discriminant validity between the normal-hearing and the hearing loss group, for its total score and some subscales. We concluded satisfying internal consistency given Cronbach's alpha values being above 0.70, nearly all alpha if item deleted values approaching the overall values, and item-subscale correlations above 0.30. Test-retest reliability was satisfying with all intraclass correlation coefficients being greater than 0.70.

Conclusion: This Dutch hearing-specific QOL proxy questionnaire can play an important role in the management and follow-up of early childhood hearing loss in Dutch health care and hearing centers. Future research on clinical data will further verify its utility in clinical practice.

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荷兰语学龄前儿童听力环境与生活质量反思问卷（HEAR-QL）的翻译与验证。

目的：考虑到儿童听力损失未经治疗的广泛影响，早期诊断、干预和持续随访对儿童听力损失至关重要。目前，尚无针对学龄前听力损失儿童的荷兰语听力特异性生活质量代理问卷。因此，本研究的目的是将学龄前儿童听力- ql问卷翻译成荷兰语并进行验证。方法：按正反向程序进行翻译。邀请60名正常听力儿童和50名2-6岁双侧听力损失儿童的家长或照顾者以数字方式填写问卷。结果：学龄前儿童听力- ql问卷的总分和部分分量表在听力正常组和听力损失组之间具有较好的判别效度。如果Cronbach的alpha值大于0.70，如果条目删除值接近整体值，则几乎所有alpha值都接近整体值，并且条目-子量表相关性大于0.30，则我们得出满意的内部一致性结论。重测信度令人满意，所有类内相关系数均大于0.70。结论：荷兰听力特异性生活质量代理问卷可在荷兰卫生保健和听力中心对儿童早期听力损失的管理和随访中发挥重要作用。未来对临床数据的研究将进一步验证其在临床实践中的实用性。

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COCHLEAR IMPLANTS INTERNATIONAL Medicine-Otorhinolaryngology

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期刊介绍： Cochlear Implants International was founded as an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal in response to the growing number of publications in the field of cochlear implants. It was designed to meet a need to include scientific contributions from all the disciplines that are represented in cochlear implant teams: audiology, medicine and surgery, speech therapy and speech pathology, psychology, hearing therapy, radiology, pathology, engineering and acoustics, teaching, and communication. The aim was to found a truly interdisciplinary journal, representing the full breadth of the field of cochlear implantation.