Validity, Discriminative Ability, and Reliability of the Turkish Hearing-Related Quality of Life Questionnaire for Children and Adolescents-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Validity, Discriminative Ability, and Reliability of the Turkish Hearing-Related Quality of Life Questionnaire for Children and Adolescents

Published:2023-01-17 Issue:1 Volume:54 Page:260-274
ISSN:0161-1461
Container-title:Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools
language:en
Short-container-title:LSHSS

Author:

Budak Zeynep¹^ORCID,Isikhan Selen Yilmaz²³,Batuk Merve Ozbal¹

Affiliation:

1. Department of Audiology, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey

2. Department of Biostatistics, Faculty of Medicine, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey

3. Vocational Higher School of Social Sciences, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey

Abstract

Purpose: The aim of this study was to translate the versions of the Hearing Environments and Reflection on Quality of Life (HEAR-QL) into Turkish and investigate the validity and reliability of the Turkish 26-item HEAR-QL (HEAR-QL-26) for children and Turkish 28-item HEAR-QL (HEAR-QL-28) for adolescents. Method: The protocol included translation into Turkish and linguistic adaptation. The HEAR-QL-26 and HEAR-QL-28, respectively, were administered to 249 children (130 with hearing loss, 119 without hearing loss) and 249 adolescents (140 with hearing loss, 109 without hearing loss) between the ages of 8 and 18 years. To determine the internal consistency (reliability) of the Turkish HEAR-QL scale, Cronbach's alpha coefficient (α) was calculated for the subcategories and the total score. We measured the construct validity of the Turkish HEAR-QL-26 and HEAR-QL-28 using Pearson r correlation coefficients comparing the Turkish HEAR-QL and the Turkish Child and Adolescent Quality of Life Scale (PedsQL). Results: The reliability for both children and adolescents (Cronbach's alpha = .973 for HEAR-QL-26 and .977 for HEAR-QL-28) was high, and test–retest reliability showed strong to excellent correlations (intraclass correlation coefficient = .980 and .979, respectively) for the total scores. In terms of known-group validity, the total HEAR-QL mean scores were lower for participants with hearing loss than for children/adolescents with normal hearing ( p < .05). Confirmatory factor analysis showed that the number of original items was sufficient in the Turkish version. Both HEAR-QL versions provided a higher area under the curve (AUC = .984 and .972, respectively) than the PedsQL (AUC = .773 and .581, respectively). Conclusion: The Turkish versions of the HEAR-QL-26 child and HEAR-QL-28 adolescent questionnaires are sensitive, reliable, and valid measurement tools to evaluate the hearing-related quality of life in children and adolescents aged between 8 and 18 years.

Publisher

American Speech Language Hearing Association

Subject

Speech and Hearing,Linguistics and Language,Language and Linguistics

Link

http://pubs.asha.org/doi/pdf/10.1044/2022_LSHSS-22-00018

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