French adaptation and validation of the Chronic Otitis Media Questionnaire-12 (COMQ-12)

Chronic otitis media (COM) can seriously impact quality of life (QOL). Disease-specific questionnaires are essential for an accurate assessment of this impact. There is no questionnaire available for French-speaking patients with COM. This study aims to adapt and validate the French version of the COMQ-12 questionnaire. This is a controlled, prospective study, conducted between May 2020 and December 2021. Translation was performed using a forward-backward technique, and statistical validation was performed with a COM patients and a controls adult cohorts. 100 patients (mean age 48 ± 16), and 50 controls (mean age 41 ± 16; p = 0.02) completed the test. Internal consistency, assessed by Cronbach’s alpha, was 0.870 for the cases group. The mean COMQ-12 total score was 23.92 ± 11.3 for cases versus 3.70 ± 6.15 for controls (p The French version of the COMQ-12 is a short and easy-to-use test, with robust statistical properties, for assessing QOL in patients with COM.