The Chinese version of the Parents' Evaluation of Aural/Oral Performance of Children (PEACH) rating scale for infants and children with normal hearing

• Published in: International journal of audiology p. 1
• Main Authors: Zhang, Vicky W, Xu, Tianqiu, Ching, Teresa Y C, Chen, Xueqing
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England 01.07.2022
• Subjects: Paediatric; parents’ evaluation of aural/oral performance of children; questionnaire; normative data
• ISSN: 1708-8186
• DOI: 10.1080/14992027.2021.1922768

This study aimed to establish Chinese norms for the Chinese version of the Parent's Evaluation of Aural/Oral of Children (PEACH) rating scale. The PEACH scores were collected from 198 parents whose children have normal hearing. The test-retest reliability of the PEACH scale was evaluated in a subgroup of 34 parents. Another 27 parents also filled out a Putonghua Communicative Development Inventory which was used to explore the relationship between the PEACH ratings and language scores. The normative curve was established using a logit regression function. The total scores increase rapidly with increasing age. A plateau starts from 22 months with the PEACH score reaching 90% and achieves the maximum score of 95% by 47 months of age. The test-retest analyses showed high reliability for all subscales, with all the correlation coefficients values exceeding 0.9 (  < 0.01). The 90% and 95% confidence intervals were provided to facilitate evaluation of differences between scores obtained under different conditions. A significant correlation was found between the PEACH total score and language performance (  < 0.05). Normative data from the Chinese population was provided to enable performance of an individual child to be related to their normally hearing peers.