Adaptation and Validation of Parents Evaluation of Aural/Oral Performance in Children (Peach) Questionnaire in Odia Language

PEACH (The Parents' Evaluation of Aural/oral performance of Children) is a questionnaire which provides important information for determining the effectiveness of provided amplification as well for determining the effectiveness of different frequency responses.When the English version of PEACH is administered to other regional languages, the intended meaning of the question may change.Hence it was important to have the standardized version of the test in regional language (Odia).This study was carried out in two phases.In first phase adaptation of all items of questionnaire into Odia was done.The adapted version was checked for content validity and appropriateness.Translation was done with the help of a linguist and two audiologists with the knowledge of syntax of Odia.In second phase, the questionnaire was administered to 30 parents of child with hearing impairment and 30 normal hearing child's parents.The scores were also compared between the groups for estimate of appropriateness.All the hearing-impaired subjects had moderately severe to profound sensorineural hearing loss bilaterally.Both descriptive and inferential was carried out with the consultation of statistician.The paired t test was carried out to compare scores of quiet condition and noise conditions.The result suggests that the scores obtained for quiet and Noise condition were significantly different for all age group.The result of ANOVA shows that age groups did not differ on scores obtained.Regression statistics was applied to know whether the duration of aural rehabilitation had any effect on the scores.And the results suggested that the effect of duration of Aural rehabilitation on obtained scores on PEACH was statistically significant for all the three scores.PEACH helps to systematically gather hearing aid fitting details which provide information about the quality of the hearing aid fitting in order to support the interpretation of the functional outcomes measured with the subjective questionnaires.