Cross-Cultural Adaptation and Validation of the Listening Inventory for Education-Revised in Italian.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Listening difficulties may frequently occur in school settings, but so far there were no tools to identify them for both hearing and hearing-impaired Italian students. This study performed cross-cultural adaptation and validation of the Listening Inventory for Education-Revised for Italian students (LIFE-R-ITA).

Methods

The study procedure followed the stages suggested by the Guidelines for the Process of Cross-cultural Adaptation of Self-Report Measures. For the content validation, six cochlear implanted students (8-18 years old) pre-tested the initial version. Whenever any situation did not occur in Italy, the item was adapted to more typical listening situations in Italy. The final version of LIFE-R-ITA was administered to a sample of 223 hearing students from

SUBMITTER: Nicastri M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11417904 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature