Validity and reliability of the ERSA questionnaire in Turkish.
Hüseyin Öztürk, Mustafa Karabulut, Mine Baydan-Aran and 1 others
PMID 38215790WHAT IT FOUND
The Turkish ERSA questionnaire lets adults with treated hearing loss report how hearing loss affects quality of life, personal life, social life and work life in about 5 minutes.
Lower scores mean more impact.
Key findings
01The Turkish ERSA is a 20-item questionnaire that can be completed in about 5 minutes.
02The study enrolled 200 participants, and Cronbach's alpha was .94 for the ERSA/200 total score and .92 for the ERSA/150 total score.
03Total scores were stable over 1 month, with test-retest ICCs of .94 and .95.
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What it does not show
The sample included only adults aged 18 to 60 years, so it does not show performance in older adults, where hearing loss is more common. Only participants with treated hearing loss were included, so the questionnaire was not tested in untreated hearing loss. Retest reliability used a smaller group than the main study, and some participants did not return, which may have biased the repeated measurements. Illiterate participants answered through interviews with relatives or an interviewer, which may have led to socially desirable responses. The questionnaire was tested only in native Turkish speakers, so other Turkish-speaking groups may not respond in the same way.
The easy way to misread this
Do not read this as evidence that the ERSA works for all hearing-loss populations. It was tested only in Turkish-speaking adults with treated hearing loss, aged 18 to 60 years, and it measures the patient's reported impact, not hearing ability.