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Translation and Adaptation of the Nijmegen Cochlear Implant Questionnaire in Hindi: A Health-Related Quality of Life Questionnaire for Adults with Cochlear Implants

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Nijmegen Cochlear Implant Questionnaire is an HRQoL tool that was developed by Dutch researchers to assess the QoL in adult CI users in the English language. It is used to measure the impact of the use of CI on the daily life situations of its users, on the perception of speech sounds, and on the cost–benefit assessment CI in adult CI users. There is no specific instrument available to assess the QoL in adult CI users in India, hence there was a need to take up this study. The primary aim of the study was to adapt and translate NCIQ into Hindi with a secondary aim to describe the effect of CI on quality of life in adult CI users. For translation, permission was taken from the authors of the original tool. The Forward-backward translation method was utilized for translation. The final version of the NCIQ-H was administered to the study participants (25 no.) 25, aged 18–60 years; High School as the minimum level of education; post-lingual hearing impairment, and CI use ≥ 12 months. The Cronbach’s α coefficient was calculated for all domains and subdomains in the NCIQ-H showed the overall reliability of the questionnaire (0.82), showing good internal consistency. The CI users reported high scores across all the domains indicating improved quality of life. No significant correlation was found between the CI usage time and NCIQ scores on Spearman’s correlation test. Also, there was no significant difference in NCIQ-H scores between genders on the Kruskal–Wallis test. The NCIQ (H) can be used to assess QoL in adults with cochlear implants. The scores suggest improvement in physical, social and psychological domains of life. No correlation was observed between the NCIQ-H scores and duration of CI usage as well as with gender differences.

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Alam, N., Munjal, S.K., Panda, N.K. et al. Translation and Adaptation of the Nijmegen Cochlear Implant Questionnaire in Hindi: A Health-Related Quality of Life Questionnaire for Adults with Cochlear Implants. Indian J Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 75 (Suppl 1), 121–126 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12070-022-03306-8

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