Turkish Validity and Reliability Study of the Speech, Spatial and Qualities of Hearing Scale.

IF 0.7 Q4 OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGY

Turkish Archives of Otorhinolaryngology Pub Date : 2021-09-01 Epub Date: 2021-10-15 DOI:10.4274/tao.2021.2021-4-3

Nurcan Kılıç, Gurbet İpek Şahin Kamışlı, Bülent Gündüz, İsmet Bayramoğlu, Yusuf K Kemaloğlu

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Abstract

Objective: The Speech, Spatial and Qualities of Hearing Scale (SSQ) is a self-report scale that evaluates hearing in complex daily life situations in the areas of hearing quality, speech perception, and spatial perception. It is also frequently used in the follow-up of hearing-impaired people, hearing aid and cochlear implant users. It is aimed to translate and adapt SSQ into Turkish, and to investigate its test-retest reliability, and construct validity and reliability, and further to present associations of SSQ scores with the pure tone averages (PTA).

Methods: The Turkish SSQ (Tr-SSQ) scale was administered on 114 adults including those with and without hearing loss. Cronbach's alpha was used to assess its reliability. The reliability coefficient of the scale was calculated by test-retest method. Associations of SSQ scores with PTAs in better and worse hearing ears (BHE and WHE) were evaluated.

Results: Tr-SSQ presented high internal consistency (Cronbach's alpha = 0.984) and test-retest reliability (r=0.994). Tr-SSQ scores were lower in the subjects with hearing loss and correlated with PTAs. Age was found to be correlated with PTAs; regression analysis demonstrated that only WHE-PTA was extracted as explanatory variable for average Tr-SSQ, speech perception and spatial perception scores while both BHE-PTA and WHE-PTA were found to be predictors of hearing quality, but not age for any of Tr-SSQ scores.

Conclusion: Tr-SSQ is a convenient tool for assessing the hearing abilities of individuals with hearing impaired.

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土耳其语语音、空间和听觉质量量表的效度和信度研究。

目的:语音、空间和听力质量量表(SSQ)是一种评估复杂日常生活情况下听力质量、语音感知和空间感知的自我报告量表。它也经常用于听力受损者、助听器和人工耳蜗使用者的随访。本研究旨在将SSQ翻译成土耳其语，研究其重测信度，构建效度和信度，并进一步揭示SSQ得分与纯音平均(PTA)的关联。方法:采用土耳其SSQ量表(Tr-SSQ)对114名成人进行测试，包括听力损失者和非听力损失者。采用Cronbach’s alpha评价其信度。采用重测法计算量表的信度系数。评估听力较好和听力较差的双耳(BHE和WHE)的SSQ评分与pta的相关性。结果:r- ssq具有较高的内部一致性(Cronbach’s alpha = 0.984)和重测信度(r=0.994)。听力损失受试者的r- ssq得分较低，且与pta相关。发现年龄与PTAs相关;回归分析表明，只有WHE-PTA可以作为平均Tr-SSQ、语音感知和空间感知得分的解释变量，而BHE-PTA和WHE-PTA都可以作为听力质量的预测变量，而年龄不能作为Tr-SSQ得分的预测变量。结论:Tr-SSQ是一种方便的听力评估工具。

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