Categories of Auditory Performance: Inter-User Reliability

Abstract Categories of Auditory Performance (CAP) describes a scale used to rate outcomes from paediatric cochlear implantation in everyday life. It differs from more technical measures by being readily applied and easily understood by non-specialist professionals and by parents. Being based on subj...

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Published in:British journal of audiology 1998-02, Vol.32 (1), p.7-12
Main Authors: Archbold, Sue, Lutman, Mark E., Nikolopoulos, Thomas
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Biological and medical sciences
Child, Preschool
Children
Cochlear Implantation
Cochlear implants
Deafness - surgery
Follow-Up Studies
health-care purchasers
Hearing
Hearing Tests
Humans
Infant
Interrater reliability
Investigative techniques, diagnostic techniques (general aspects)
Measures
Medical sciences
Otorhinolaryngology functional investigation (larynx, voice, audiometry, vestibular function, equilibration...)
outcome
paediatric cochlear implant
parents
Reproducibility of Results
Treatment Outcome
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Summary:Abstract Categories of Auditory Performance (CAP) describes a scale used to rate outcomes from paediatric cochlear implantation in everyday life. It differs from more technical measures by being readily applied and easily understood by non-specialist professionals and by parents. Being based on subjective assessments, there is a need to establish whether ratings by different persons are comparable. Therefore, an analysis of inter-user reliability was undertaken using ratings from 23 children followed up at various intervals after implantation. Analysis relating scores by local teachers of the deaf and the teachers of the deaf at the implant centre revealed very high inter-user reliability (correlation coefficient 0.97). This result establishes the reliability of CAP as an outcome measure for use in cochlear implant programmes.
ISSN:0300-5364
DOI:10.3109/03005364000000045