Development of pediatric vestibular symptom questionnaire in malayalam language for children aged 3-6 years

Vestibular disorders are the leading cause of dizziness in children. Vestibular disorders in youngsters with and due to Otitis Media Effusion have recently gained attention. The best way to identify vestibular disorders in youngsters is to use crude methods. The majority of the time, the parents’ history is used to form the view. As a result, questionnaires are the finest tool for estimating children. The Pediatric Vestibular Symptom Questionnaire was created and validated to measure children’s private vestibular symptom inflexibility (i.e. dizziness, shakiness), as a reliable and valid tool for assessing the presence and inflexibility of private vestibular symptoms in children with vestibular diseases or concussion provides a tool for assessing the presence and inflexibility of private vestibular symptoms in children with vestibular diseases or concussion. The questionnaire was used to distinguish between children with vestibular symptoms and healthy controls, and it should be used to detect and quantify vestibular symptoms that require further examination and treatment. The adaptation of the same in Malayalam Language among the natives of Kerala, the Southern Indian states were used widely to evaluate and identify the vestibular symptoms among the children for the effective treatment and better prognosis. Based on the statistics and analysis obtained the questionnaire demonstrated robust reliability, construct and discriminate validity.