Translation and cross-cultural adaptation of the Noise Exposure Questionnaire (NEQ) to Brazilian Portuguese.
Letícia Campos de Oliveira, Clayton Henrique Rocha, Carla Gentile Matas and 3 others
PMID 37436186WHAT IT FOUND
The Brazilian Portuguese NEQ and NEQ-S were understood by 60 workers who tested them.
They ask about noise exposure and risk, but this paper does not show they diagnose hearing loss.
Key findings
01The Brazilian Portuguese NEQ and NEQ-S were understood by the 60 workers who tested them, including both closed-ended and open-ended questions.
02Two questions about noisy work agreed moderately (kappa 0.550), and the questionnaire items showed substantial internal consistency (Cronbach's alpha 0.711).
03The NEQ-S is a three-question screen in which scores of 5 or higher indicate greater risk of developing noise-induced hearing loss.
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What it does not show
The pretest used a convenience sample of university workers, and the authors note possible selection bias. The study did not report diagnostic accuracy against audiometry; that was planned for a later stage. Intra-subject reliability was tested only by comparing two questions about noisy work. No other translated versions were found for comparison.
Declared interests
The supplied text reports ethics approval and that use of the NEQ was authorized by one of its original authors. It does not report funding or conflicts of interest.
The easy way to misread this
Do not read the adapted NEQ or NEQ-S as a validated diagnostic screen for hearing loss. This paper tested translation, understandability, and item consistency, and it says diagnostic values against audiometry were planned for a later stage.