Discriminant Validity of the Parent-Proxy Preschool HEAR-QL.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The parent-proxy Preschool HEAR-QL (Hearing Environments And Reflections on Quality of Life) is a quality of life (QOL) measure for 2 to 6-year-old children with hearing loss (HL). We compared Preschool HEAR-QL scores for children with HL and children with normal hearing (NH) to examine the measure's discriminant validity.

Study design

Cross-sectional study.

Setting

Three tertiary care pediatric otolaryngology clinics.

Patients

Two hundred forty-eight parents of children 2 to 6 years old with NH or HL participated.

Interventions

None.

Main outcome measure

The Preschool HEAR-QL has five domains: Behavior and Attention, Hearing Environments, New Social Situations, Social Interactions, and Communications. Scores range from 0 to 100; higher

SUBMITTER: Zhang AL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8752468 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature