Deafness and Additional Disabilities Questionnaire: translation and cultural adaptation into Brazilian Portuguese.
Vanessa Luisa Destro Fidêncio, Camila Rodrigues Cavalcante Arruda, Tatiane Franciele de Almeida and 1 others
PMID 40136238WHAT IT FOUND
The Deafness and Additional Disabilities Questionnaire was successfully translated into Brazilian Portuguese.
Eleven mothers of deaf children with cochlear implants understood all questions without difficulty and rated the interview as very easy or fast to complete.
Key findings
01All eleven participating mothers reported understanding the questions in the translated Brazilian Portuguese version without any difficulty.
02Mothers rated the ease of answering the questionnaire as very easy (72.73%) or easy (9.09%), and the time to complete it as very fast (27.28%) or fast (54.54%).
03The translated instrument showed almost perfect internal consistency for the total score and substantial consistency across all individual domains.
STILL TO COME
How it was doneWhat they foundWhat it means for SLPs
Read the rest of this summary
You get three full summaries a month, free, and we do not ask for a card. Search, the TL;DRs and your library stay unlimited either way.
What it does not show
The study included only 11 participants, which is too small to establish robust clinical norms or definitive reliability. The sample was limited to mothers, excluding fathers or other guardians. The instrument has not yet been standardized across larger, more varied Brazilian populations. One domain (preferred communication mode) could not be statistically evaluated for consistency because it contained only one question.
Declared interests
The authors declared nothing to declare regarding financial support or conflicts of interest.
The easy way to misread this
Do not assume the questionnaire is validated for general clinical use. This study only tested translation equivalence and basic reliability with 11 mothers. It has not been standardized or validated in larger samples, so it should be used as a descriptive tool rather than a diagnostic measure until further research is complete.