Karen A Bonuck1, Beth L Goodlin-Jones2, Clyde Schechter3, Judith Owens4. 1. Department of Family and Social Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1300 Morris Park Avenue, Bronx, NY 10461. Electronic address: karen.bonuck@einstein.yu.edu. 2. Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, UC Davis MIND Institute, Sacramento, CA 95817. 3. Department of Family and Social Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1300 Morris Park Avenue, Bronx, NY 10461. 4. Department of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, 25 Shattuck Street, Boston, MA 02115.
Abstract
OBJECTIVES: Behavioral sleep problems (BSPs) are prevalent and consequential in young children. There is a need for screening tools that identify BSPs-which are often rooted in the parent-young child relationship-and typically respond to behavior management. Such a tool would increase capacity to identify and treat BSPs. We sought to validate a short-form version of the widely used Children's Sleep Habits Questionnaire (SF-CSHQ) that omitted items that would not be responsive to behavioral strategies. METHODS: The original 33-item CSHQ elicits parent report of "behaviorally-based" and "medically-based" sleep items (eg, parasomnias and sleep disordered breathing). We conducted analyses to develop a SF-CSHQ that excludes its "medically-based" items, to determine (a) the SF-CSHQ threshold score corresponding to the full CSHQ clinical cut-off score (≥41), and (b) preliminary validity of this SF-CSHQ. Data were re-analyzed from the original data that established the CSHQ's psychometric properties in 4-10 year olds, and a second dataset that established its validity in 24-66 month olds. RESULTS: In both datasets, a threshold score of 30 had correlations of 0.90-0.94 with the original cut-off. This 23-item SF-CSHQ cut-off functioned as well as the full CSHQ cut-off in discriminating between children with vs without a parent-reported behavioral sleep problem, and with vs without prolonged sleep latency (per actigraphy). CONCLUSION: We established preliminary validity of modified version of the widely-used CSHQ. This SF-CSHQ may be useful for widening screening and first-line guidance for behavioral sleep problems in young children, among professionals who are not sleep medicine specialists.
OBJECTIVES: Behavioral sleep problems (BSPs) are prevalent and consequential in young children. There is a need for screening tools that identify BSPs-which are often rooted in the parent-young child relationship-and typically respond to behavior management. Such a tool would increase capacity to identify and treat BSPs. We sought to validate a short-form version of the widely used Children's Sleep Habits Questionnaire (SF-CSHQ) that omitted items that would not be responsive to behavioral strategies. METHODS: The original 33-item CSHQ elicits parent report of "behaviorally-based" and "medically-based" sleep items (eg, parasomnias and sleep disordered breathing). We conducted analyses to develop a SF-CSHQ that excludes its "medically-based" items, to determine (a) the SF-CSHQ threshold score corresponding to the full CSHQ clinical cut-off score (≥41), and (b) preliminary validity of this SF-CSHQ. Data were re-analyzed from the original data that established the CSHQ's psychometric properties in 4-10 year olds, and a second dataset that established its validity in 24-66 month olds. RESULTS: In both datasets, a threshold score of 30 had correlations of 0.90-0.94 with the original cut-off. This 23-item SF-CSHQ cut-off functioned as well as the full CSHQ cut-off in discriminating between children with vs without a parent-reported behavioral sleep problem, and with vs without prolonged sleep latency (per actigraphy). CONCLUSION: We established preliminary validity of modified version of the widely-used CSHQ. This SF-CSHQ may be useful for widening screening and first-line guidance for behavioral sleep problems in young children, among professionals who are not sleep medicine specialists.
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