The Extended Effort Assessment Scale (EEAS) is a recently developed questionnaire for measuring listening effort, but a validated version for Kannada speakers is lacking. This study aimed to translate, culturally adapt, and psychometrically validate the EEAS for the Kannada-speaking adults with hearing loss.
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Discussion
Signed responses from readers of the wire.
Audiologists serving Kannada-speaking patients can now use the validated EEAS-K to assess listening effort — a clinically meaningful outcome — but no change is needed for practices outside this language group.
Validated listening-effort tools in under-represented languages are essential for equitable audiology care and research in multilingual regions like South Asia.
- 01EEAS-K is a Kannada-language adaptation of the Extended Effort Assessment Scale for measuring listening effort.
- 02Study published in PLoS One; reports psychometric validation including reliability and validity metrics.
- 03Fills a gap for Kannada-speaking adults with hearing loss who lack culturally appropriate assessment tools.
- 04Listening effort is an increasingly recognised patient-reported outcome beyond standard audiometric measures.
- 05Findings support use of EEAS-K in both clinical and research contexts for this population.
The Kannada version of the EEAS (EEAS-K) demonstrates acceptable psychometric properties (reliability and validity) for assessing listening effort in adults with hearing loss.
studysupported- PMID
- 42776970
- DOI
- 10.1371/journal.pone.0358439.
- Journal
- PLOS ONE
- Publication type
- research_article
- Evidence level
- 2b
- Population
- Adults with hearing loss who are Kannada speakers
- Intervention
- Kannada version of the Extended Effort Assessment Scale (EEAS-K)
Primary outcomes
Psychometric validity of EEAS-K; Reliability of EEAS-K; Cross-cultural equivalence of the adapted scale