The care of deafness in children is difficult and the relevance of interventions is difficult to evaluate based on audiometric measurements alone. Generic pediatric quality of life tools have been validated and used, among other things, to assess the quality of life of children with deafness. However, these non-specific tools do not make it possible to precisely target which factors and interventions are the most important for the quality of life in this population. Achieving a score to monitor the quality of life objectively over time is fundamental to verify the effectiveness of interventions, and assess the impact on the child. There is currently no validated test in French for any of these uses and populations. The objective of the study is to adapt the questionnaires "PEACH", "SSQ child (SSQ-C)" and "SSQ parents (SSQ-P)" to the French child, and statistically measure their internal and external validity by comparing them to a control group. The validation of these three tests (PEACH, SSQ-P, SSQ-C) would make it possible to assess the hearing performance and quality of life of almost the entire pediatric population, for use in both clinical and academic practice.
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Paired student t-test
Timeframe: 1 year
Cronbach alpha test
Timeframe: 1 year
Item-total Pearson correlation
Timeframe: 1 year
Principal components analysis
Timeframe: 1 year
Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) curve
Timeframe: 1 year