title: Adaptation of the Amsterdam Inventory for Auditory Disability and Handicap into Spanish.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Self-report questionnaires have been suggested as valuable assessment tools in audiology, especially when investigating the effect of hearing impairment on the everyday lives of adults. Many self-report questionnaires have been developed for English-speaking populations; however, there is a lack of this type of questionnaire for Spanish-speaking patients. The aim of the present research was to adapt the Amsterdam Inventory for Auditory Disability and Handicap (AIADH) into Spanish.
  
  
  METHODS
  The AIADH consists of 30 questions that deal with real-life listening situations. Each question is accompanied by a picture representing the situation being addressed. Six Spanish-English bilingual speakers and one Spanish-English bilingual speaker participated in the translations and back translations of the English version of the AIADH. Once the adaptation was finalized, 189 normal-hearing and hearing-impaired Spanish-speaking participants completed the Spanish version of the AIADH (S-AIADH).
  
  
  RESULTS
  Statistical analysis showed a high Cronbach's alpha coefficient, indicating good internal reliability. Test-retest scores were highly correlated. Also, the S-AIADH showed good criterion validity. Statistically significant differences for all questionnaire item responses were observed between normal-hearing and hearing-impaired respondents.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The AIADH has been adapted into Spanish. Normative data in percentiles have been obtained for clinical use with Spanish-speaking populations, to explore self-reported performance for the hearing functions proposed by the ICF. [Box: see text].
authors.affiliation: School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. cate.stephens@hotmail.co.uk
authors.forename: Adrian
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Fuente
authors.forename: Bradley
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: McPherson
authors.forename: Sophia E
authors.initials: SE
authors.lastname: Kramer
authors.forename: Ximena
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Hormazábal
authors.forename: Louise
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Hickson
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004185:Disability Evaluation; D005260:Female; D034381:Hearing Loss / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D019986:Persons with Hearing Disabilities / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales / Q000592:standards* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013030:Spain; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014177:Translations; D055815:Young Adult