Translation and Determination of Reliability and Validity of the Glasgow Hearing-Aid Benefit Profile (GHABP) Questionnaire

  Using hearing aid is the main intervention in audiologic rehabilitation of hearing impaired elderly people. A suitable tool for evaluating auditory rehabilitation and hearing aid is using questionnaires. As a case in point, translation and psychometric evaluation of GHABP could provide a suitable and useful tool for Iranian Audiology Community. First the questionnaire was translated by two different translators and then the items were finalized. Next, face validity and content validity evaluations were condcted. To check th reliability, a total of 40 elderly filled out the questionnaire and 20 elderly people who had used the hearing aid for six months answered the questionnaire once again after 25 days for test-retest confirmation. After considering validity and content of Glasgow questionnaire, we found that this questionnaire enjoyed 89% validity index and also 0.89 cronbach's alpha coefficient demonstrating that using this questionnaire is benefitial to be used among the elderly.

GHABA is a valid, reliable tool for measuring the benefits of using hearing aid in hearing impaired elderly.