The Hemianopia Reading Questionnaire (HRQ): Development and Psychometric Qualities in a Large Community Sample.

ABSTRACT: The ability to read is important for daily life functioning. Individuals with homonymous visual field defects (iwHs) after brain injury experience frequent reading difficulties. The current study presents a novel self-report questionnaire aimed at measuring the wide variety of reading difficulties iwHs can experience: the Hemianopia Reading Questionnaire (HRQ). The 24-item HRQ was developed with help from clinical experts and experts by experience and was inspired by existing reading questionnaires for adults. The three tested subscales of the HRQ assess the relationship to reading, reading skills and daily life functional reading. The factor structure, reliability, convergent validity and divergent validity were examined in a large community sample (i.e., individuals without homonymous vi

SUBMITTER: Tol S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11311558 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature