Cross-cultural adaptation of the Parent Hearing Aid Management Inventory into Brazilian Portuguese.
Marília Cardoso Prudêncio, Joseli Soares Brazorotto
PMID 39258639WHAT IT FOUND
A questionnaire for parents of children with hearing loss was successfully adapted into Brazilian Portuguese.
It helps therapists identify specific gaps in family knowledge and daily device management, though it requires testing in more regions before widespread use.
Key findings
01Expert judges found semantic equivalence in 46 of the 52 translated items, requiring only minor adjustments to wording.
02Ten parents completed the adapted questionnaire without fatigue, though some needed examples to understand three specific items.
03The adapted instrument demonstrated almost perfect internal consistency for the reduced version.
STILL TO COME
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What it does not show
The study only included ten families from a single region in Brazil, so it does not represent the diversity of the country. The original study was a pilot, meaning the long-term utility and stability of the adapted version are not yet proven.
Declared interests
No financial support or conflicts of interest were declared.
The easy way to misread this
Do not assume this adapted questionnaire is validated for all Portuguese-speaking populations or regions. It was tested on only ten families in one area, so its reliability and cultural fit for your specific community remain unproven.