Validation of questionnaire-reported hearing with medical records: A report from the Swiss Childhood Cancer Survivor Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Hearing loss is a potential late effect after childhood cancer. Questionnaires are often used to assess hearing in large cohorts of childhood cancer survivors and it is important to know if they can provide valid measures of hearing loss. We therefore assessed agreement and validity of questionnaire-reported hearing in childhood cancer survivors using medical records as reference.

Procedure

In this validation study, we studied 361 survivors of childhood cancer from the Swiss Childhood Cancer Survivor Study (SCCSS) who had been diagnosed after 1989 and had been exposed to ototoxic cancer treatment. Questionnaire-reported hearing was compared to the information in medical records. Hearing loss was defined as ≥ grade 1 according to the SIOP Boston Ototoxicity Scale.

SUBMITTER: Weiss A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5363962 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature