A New Speech, Spatial, and Qualities of Hearing Scale Short-Form for Deaf Children

Pediatric Clinical Trial

— KID SSQ12  

Official title:

A New Speech, Spatial, and Qualities of Hearing Scale Short-Form for Deaf Children

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT04106063
• Other study ID #: 69HCL19_0533
• Status: Completed
• Start date: November 20, 2019
• Est. completion date: November 23, 2020

Study information

• Verified date: December 2021
• Source: Hospices Civils de Lyon
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

Deafness significantly affects several auditory tasks of everyday life in children:

understanding speech in quiet and noisy environments, spatial location of sounds ...

These difficulties in locating sound sources are often ignored by parents and underestimated by children. Nowadays we there is specific tools to evaluate these problems in children. Indeed, there is a validated French questionnaire (Speech and Spatial Questionnaire SSQ) for adults that evaluates auditory abilities, including sound localization, in different tasks of daily life. Although robust, this questionnaire includes 49 questions and is too long for daily use in consultation. For this reason, Moulin et al validated in 2018 a short version of the SSQ questionnaire for adults with only 15 items.

Based on this model, the aim of this study is to develop and test a paediatric questionnaire with 12 items to assess more specifically auditory difficulties in deaf children. This questionnaire will follow the validated frame of the adult SSQ questionnaire and will consist of three subscales: speech hearing (4 items), spatial hearing (4 items), and qualities of hearing (4 items). These 3 subscales are identical to those defined in long and short form pf the adult SSQ questionnaire.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 154
• Est. completion date: November 23, 2020
• Est. primary completion date: November 23, 2020
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 7 Years to 17 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Male or female aged 7-17 (inclusive)

• Attending medical appointment for temporary or persistent deafness

• Able to understand the experimental instructions

Exclusion Criteria:

none-

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Deafness
• Pediatric

Intervention

Other:
• KID SSQ12 questionnaire
During a face to face interview (maximum 15 minutes), the child will complete a short questionnaire (KID SSQ12 questionnaire) to assess his auditory difficulties

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
France	ENT departement, Edouard Herriot Hospital	Lyon

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Hospices Civils de Lyon

Country where clinical trial is conducted

France, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	KID SSQ12 questionnaire score	This questionnaire evaluates auditive abilities (including sound localisation) in different every day life tasks, in deaf children. It is made up of 12 items ; for each item the score range is between 0 (worse outcome) and 10 (best outcome). The questionnaire is devided into 3 subscores of 4 items : speech audition, spatial audition and quality of audition.; Thanks to that tool, internal structures (internal consistency, sub-scale structure obtained by principal component analysis and cluster analysis) and psychometric values will be compared with adult versions of the questionnaire (complete and abbreviated) published in the international literature. Overall scores, scores by subscales and items will be compared.	At inclusion