Translation, cross-cultural adaptation, validation, and diagnostic properties of the Arabic version of self-diagnosis questionnaire for Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo

Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo (BPPV) is a common peripheral vestibular disorder, yet no validated Arabic BPPV-specific questionnaire is currently available. To translate and culturally adapt the self-diagnosis BPPV questionnaire into Arabic and to evaluate its psychometric and diagnostic properties....

Clinics serving Arabic-speaking patients may consider adopting this validated self-diagnosis tool to improve BPPV screening efficiency, pending review of the reported sensitivity and specificity values.

Validated, culturally adapted screening tools extend accurate BPPV identification to underserved language populations and can reduce diagnostic delays in community and primary-care settings.

1. 01Arabic translation and cross-cultural adaptation of a BPPV self-diagnosis questionnaire validated in Front Neurol (2026).
2. 02Diagnostic properties (sensitivity, specificity) of the Arabic version were reported.
3. 03Addresses a gap in vestibular screening tools for Arabic-speaking populations.
4. 04Self-diagnosis questionnaires can facilitate triage before formal vestibular assessment.
5. 05Cultural adaptation process followed standard international translation methodology.

PMID

42211312

DOI

10.3389/fneur.2026.1834087.

Journal

Frontiers in Neurology

Publication type

research_article

Evidence level

2b

Population

Arabic-speaking individuals screened for benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV)

Intervention

Arabic version of the BPPV self-diagnosis questionnaire

Comparator

Clinical diagnosis of BPPV as reference standard