| Attitudes toward Loss of Hearing Questionnaire (ALHQ)를
이용한 난청인의 심리적 평가의 타당성 연구 |
| 조병해1, 신은영2, 김진숙3 |
1한림대학교 보건대학원 재활학과 청각학전공
2한림대학교 일반대학원 청각학전공
3한림대학교 자연과학대학 언어청각학부, 청각언어연구소 |
| A study of validity for psychometric evaluation using
Attitude toward Loss of Hearing Questionnaire (ALHQ) for the hearing impaired. |
| Byung Hae Jo1, Eun Yeong Shin2, Jin Sook Kim3 |
1Audiology, Rehabilitation, Graduate School of Public Health, Hallym University, Chuncheon, Korea
2Graduate Program in Audiology, Hallym University, Chuncheon, Korea
3Division of Speech Pathology & Audiology, Audiology & Speech Pathology Research Institute, Hallym University, Chuncheon, Korea |
| Correspondence |
Jin Sook Kim ,Tel: (033) 248-2213, Fax: (033) 256-3420, Email: jskim@hallym.ac.kr
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Received: April 13, 2011; Revised: June 2, 2011 Accepted: June 14, 2011. Published online: June 30, 2011. |
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| ABSTRACT |
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Attitudes toward Loss of Hearing Questionnaire (ALHQ) designed by Brooks(1989) was interpreted to Korean in order to provide
Korean psychometric evaluation data. For validating the results and possibility of clinical utilization, the analysis method was adapted
from Saunders & Cienkowski(1996) who divided five reliable scales of 24-questions version of ALHQ: 1) Social Emotional Impact
of Hearing Loss (SEI), 2) Lack of Acceptance/Adjustment to Hearing Loss (LAA), 3) Perceived Absence of Support from Significant
Others (PASSO), 4) Hearing Aid Stigma (HAS), 5) Awareness of Hearing Loss (AHL). 104 hearing impaired Korean participated and
completed the questionnaire. Scoring method 1 and 2, giving 1 and 2 for the positive response, respectively, were used. All five scales
were scored such that a positive response, and consequently a higher score, means a poor attitude toward hearing loss. Cronbach's α
were .471~ .693 and .368~ .628, for scoring method 1 and 2, indicating somewhat low reliability. The correlation of the scales were
statistically significant for all scales. Pure tone audiometric data explained little about the variance in scores. Right ear pure tone
averages of 0.5~4 kHz were significantly correlated with SEI scores and SEI scores were significantly correlated with total ALHQ
score, LAA and SEI. Demographic factors such as gender, age, marital status, period of wearing hearing aid did not give any influence
over the scores. Conclusively, the interpreted ALHQ is a potentially useful clinical tool for aural rehabilitation and counseling, if the
personality data are added and more studies are conducted with more participants. However, it is suggested to develop Korean
questionnaire to overcome interpreted English questionnaire. |
| Key Words:
Attitudes toward Loss of Hearing Questionnaire (ALHQ), Aural rehabilitation, Counseling, Hearing impaired. |
| 중심단어:
상담, 청능재활, 청력손상, 청력손실에 대한 태도 설문지(ALHQ). |
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