Florian Lecuelle1, Marie-Paule Gustin2, Wendy Leslie1, Jodi A Mindell3, Patricia Franco4, Benjamin Putois5. 1. Pediatric Sleep Unit, Hospital for Women Mothers & Children, Lyon 1 University, France. 2. Institute of Pharmaceutic and Biological Sciences, University Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Villeurbanne, France; Emerging Pathogens Laboratory-Fondation Mérieux, International Center for Infectiology Research (CIRI), Inserm U1111, CNRS UMR5308, ENS de Lyon, Lyon, France. 3. Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA; Saint Joseph's University, Philadelphia, PA, USA. 4. Pediatric Sleep Unit, Hospital for Women Mothers & Children, Lyon 1 University, France; Research Laboratory on the Physiology of the Brain Arousal System, CRNL, INSERM-U1028, CNRS UMR5292, Lyon, France. 5. Pediatric Sleep Unit, Hospital for Women Mothers & Children, Lyon 1 University, France; Research Laboratory on the Physiology of the Brain Arousal System, CRNL, INSERM-U1028, CNRS UMR5292, Lyon, France; Swiss Distance Learning University, Brig, Switzerland. Electronic address: benjamin.putois@unidistance.ch.
Abstract
The sleep disturbance scale for children (SDSC) has been translated and adapted into several languages and its psychometric properties are good. Notably, a French version has been validated for 4- to 16-year olds. The objective of the current study was therefore to adapt and validate the SDSC for French young children (aged 6 months to 4 years). METHOD: 421 French-speaking mothers of children aged between 6 months and 4 years completed the SDSC and the Brief Infant Sleep Questionnaire (BISQ) which is specifically for young children. Of these, 105 children were diagnosed with sleep disorders (clinical group) during a sleep consultation, and 316 completed the SDSC and BISQ in a network of nurseries (control group). Several factor analyses were conducted to identify the most consistent factor structure for this sample. RESULTS: Three items from the previous version were deleted due to lack of clinical relevance for this age group. The best factor analysis revealed six factors, comparable to the Italian version of the SDSC for children: Disorders of Initiating Sleep, Disorders of Maintaining Sleep, Sleep Hyperhidrosis, Sleep Breathing Disorders, Parasomnias, and Non-Restorative Sleep and Excessive Somnolence. This psychometric structure is reliable and aligned with expert diagnoses. The convergent validity, and divergent and internal reliability were acceptable. CONCLUSION: This study validates a 22-item SDSC for French young children. Coupled with some questions from the BISQ, the SDSC could therefore be used to facilitate the detection of sleep disturbances in children aged between 6 months and 4 years old.
The sleep disturbance scale for children (SDSC) has been translated and adapted into several languages and its psychometric properties are good. Notably, a French version has been validated for 4- to 16-year olds. The objective of the current study was therefore to adapt and validate the SDSC for French young children (aged 6 months to 4 years). METHOD: 421 French-speaking mothers of children aged between 6 months and 4 years completed the SDSC and the Brief Infant Sleep Questionnaire (BISQ) which is specifically for young children. Of these, 105 children were diagnosed with sleep disorders (clinical group) during a sleep consultation, and 316 completed the SDSC and BISQ in a network of nurseries (control group). Several factor analyses were conducted to identify the most consistent factor structure for this sample. RESULTS: Three items from the previous version were deleted due to lack of clinical relevance for this age group. The best factor analysis revealed six factors, comparable to the Italian version of the SDSC for children: Disorders of Initiating Sleep, Disorders of Maintaining Sleep, Sleep Hyperhidrosis, Sleep Breathing Disorders, Parasomnias, and Non-Restorative Sleep and Excessive Somnolence. This psychometric structure is reliable and aligned with expert diagnoses. The convergent validity, and divergent and internal reliability were acceptable. CONCLUSION: This study validates a 22-item SDSC for French young children. Coupled with some questions from the BISQ, the SDSC could therefore be used to facilitate the detection of sleep disturbances in children aged between 6 months and 4 years old.
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