Preliminary Report on Construction and Validation of a Pediatric Sleep Disturbance Questionnaire

SUMMARYTo attempt a categorization of sleep disorders in children, we developed a 27 item Likert-type rating scale (Sleep Disturbance Scale for Children: SDSC) and assessed the psychometric properties was developed. The scale was distributed to the mothers of 1304 children (1 157 controls, mean age 9 . 8~; 147 sleep disorder subjects, mean age 9.2y, composed of four clinical groups: Insomnia 39 subjects, Hypersomnia 12 subjects, Respiratory disturbances during sleep 25 subjects and Parasomnias 7 1 subjects). The internal consistency was high in controls (0.79) and remained at a satisfactory level in sleep disorder subjects (0.71); the testhetest reliability was adequate for the total (I. =0.71) and single item scores. The factor analysis (variance explained 44.21%) yielded six factors which represented the most common areas of sleep disorders in childhood and adolescence. Enuresis was the only item with a factor loading lower than 0.40 and with a low inter-item correlation and was therefore eliminated, resulting in a final scale of 26 items. The re-evaluation of the sample, using the factor scores, supported the validity and the discriminating capacity of the scales between controls and the four clinical groups. The correlation between factor scores corroborated the hypothesis that childhood sleep disturbances are not independent entities nor do they cluster into different groupings related to each other. The SDSC appears to be a useful tool in evaluating the sleep disturbances of school-age children in clinical and nonclinical populations.

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“…1982;Karacan er al. 1983;Kahn et al 1989;Cook and Burd 1990). A few studies (Dollinger 1982;Fisher ef al.…”

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The Sleep Disturbance Scale for Children (SDSC) Construct ion and validation of an instrument to evaluate sleep disturbances in childhood and adolescence

Bruni

Ottaviano

Guidetti

et al. 1996

Journal of Sleep Research

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“…20,[25][26][27]30 Factor analysis for CSHQ has only recently been completed in typically developing toddlers. One of the main limitations, when using these questionnaires with the CP population, is that they relied on factor analysis performed in typically developing children with no inclusion of children with CP.…”

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Psychometric properties of parent and child reported sleep assessment tools in children with cerebral palsy: a systematic review

Bautista

Whittingham

Edwards

et al. 2017

Develop Med Child Neuro

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Clinical Assessment of Child and Adolescent Sleep Disturbance

Kuhn

Mayfield²,

Kuhn³

1999

Jour of Counseling & Develop

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This article provides guidelines for counselors interested in developing their own assessment procedure to evaluate child and adolescent sleep disturbance. The guidelines include reviewing the developmental and medical history, screening for parental psychopathology, obtaining a child behavior rating scale and sleep diary, and conducting a semistructured clinical interview to identify the sleep history and specific concerns. Considerations for referring clients for additional evaluation such as an overnight sleep study are discussed.Electronic Journal: To print this article select pages 111-120. TOC

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Preliminary Report on Construction and Validation of a Pediatric Sleep Disturbance Questionnaire

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The Sleep Disturbance Scale for Children (SDSC) Construct ion and validation of an instrument to evaluate sleep disturbances in childhood and adolescence

The Sleep Disturbance Scale for Children (SDSC) Construct ion and validation of an instrument to evaluate sleep disturbances in childhood and adolescence

Psychometric properties of parent and child reported sleep assessment tools in children with cerebral palsy: a systematic review

Clinical Assessment of Child and Adolescent Sleep Disturbance

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