1. A validation and normative study of the Parents' Evaluation of Aural/Oral Performance of Children plus (PEACH+) rating scale in Malaysia.
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Quar, Tian Kar, Ooi, Gladys H. T., Umat, Cila, Mazlan, Rafidah, Chong, Foong Yen, and Ching, Teresa Y. C.
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HEARING disorder diagnosis , *RESEARCH methodology evaluation , *STATISTICAL sampling , *QUESTIONNAIRES , *PARENTING , *AGE distribution , *DESCRIPTIVE statistics , *SURVEYS , *PSYCHOMETRICS , *STATISTICAL reliability , *INTRACLASS correlation , *PSYCHOLOGY of parents , *AUDITORY perception , *SPEECH perception , *CHILDREN - Abstract
The purpose of the present study was to (1) translate and validate the PEACH + Rating Scale in Malay and (2) establish normative curves as a function of age and examine test-retest reliability for the Malay and English versions of PEACH+. This is a cross-sectional study that used a convenient sampling technique. One hundred and fifty-seven parents of typically developing children aged between 4 months and 7 years participated in the study. Forty-nine completed the Malay PEACH + in a pen-to-paper format (Aim 1). One hundred and eight parents completed PEACH + online (69 completed the Malay version and 39 the English version), and 20 of them completed the questionnaire twice (Aim 2). The PEACH + in Malay showed high internal consistency and item-total correlation. The normative data revealed that scores for frequency of auditory behaviour increased rapidly with age until about 20 months and reached an asymptote of around 90% by about 40 months of age. A similar trend was observed for ease of listening scores, which asymptoted around 85%. The validated Malay PEACH + Rating Scale can be used as a guide to monitor auditory functional performance and listening efforts of Malaysian children in real-world environments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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