Validity and reliability of the Turkish version of the parental perspective scale for children with cochlear implants

This study aimed to translate the "Children with Cochlear Implant: Parental Perspectives (CCIPP)" scale into Turkish and evaluate its validity and reliability.

Parents of 378 children between the ages of 2 and 18, who had used cochlear implants for at least one year, filled out the Turkish version of the scale. The original scale was translated from English to Turkish. Explanatory factor analysis (EFA) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) were performed to examine the scale construct validity. For the evaluation of the scale reliability, internal consistency and test-retest reliability measures were evaluated with Cronbach's alpha (α) and correlation, respectively.

The reliability coefficients of the dimensions are between 0.237 and 0.678. The test-retest correlation coefficient of 0.875 was obtained. As a result of factor analysis, ten sub-dimensions were determined, corresponding to the original ten domains defined in the CCIPP scale. The Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin (KMO) sample adequacy coefficient calculated in the sub-factor analysis was determined to be 0.850. The dimensions obtained according to the result of the Bartlett test in which the significance of the factor structures was tested (test value: 9596.996, degrees of freedom (df): 2628, p < 0.001) are structurally significant. CFA confirmed the accuracy of the ten-dimensional structures (Comparative Fit Index (CFI) = 0.901; Incremental Fit Index (IFI) = 0.902; Root Mean Square Error of Approximation (RMSEA) = 0.054).

The Turkish version of the scale has good validity and reliability and can be used to examine parents' perspectives on cochlear implants.