A new tool for the assessment of speech understanding and spatial hearing difficulties in children: the Kid-SSQ questionnaire - Équipe "Perception, Attention, Mémoire" du Centre de Recherche en Neurosciences de Lyon
Article Dans Une Revue European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology Année : 2023

A new tool for the assessment of speech understanding and spatial hearing difficulties in children: the Kid-SSQ questionnaire

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PURPOSE: To develop and validate a new questionnaire, the Kid-SSQ, for the rapid screening of hearing abilities in children with hearing impairment, aged 7-17 years. METHODS: The questionnaire was constructed from two existing, validated versions of the 'Speech, Spatial and Qualities of Hearing' - (SSQ) questionnaire (pediatric form and adult short-form). The 12 selected items included auditory aspects from three subscales: speech perception, spatial hearing, and qualities of hearing. This new short form was then validated in 154 children with cochlear implants (100 bilaterally, and 54 unilaterally implanted children). Construct validity was assessed by testing relationships between Kid-SSQ scores and objective clinical parameters (e.g., age at test, pure-tone audiometry-PTA threshold, speech reception threshold-SRT, duration of binaural experience). RESULTS: Completion time was acceptable for use with children (less than 10 min) and the non-response rate was less than 1%. Good internal consistency was obtained (Cronbach's α = 0.78), with a stable internal structure corresponding to the 3 intended subscales. External validity showed the specificity of each subscale: speech subscale scores were significantly predicted (r = 0.32, p < 0.001) by both 2 kHz PTA threshold (β = 0.33, p < 0.001) and SRT (β = - 0.23, p < 0.001). Children with more binaural experience showed significantly higher scores on the spatial subscale than children with less binaural experience (F(1,98) = 5.1, p < 0.03) and the qualities of hearing subscale scores significantly depended on both age and SRT (r = 0.32, p < 0.001). CONCLUSIONS: The Kid-SSQ questionnaire is a robust and clinically useful questionnaire for self-assessment of difficulties in various auditory domains.
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hal-04009280 , version 1 (20-03-2023)

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Aurélie Coudert, Karen Reilly, Eric Truy, Annie Moulin, Valérie Gaveau. A new tool for the assessment of speech understanding and spatial hearing difficulties in children: the Kid-SSQ questionnaire. European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology, 2023, ⟨10.1007/s00405-023-07846-9⟩. ⟨hal-04009280⟩
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