I need to use a questionnaire for 6-11 year olds and 12-16 year olds. Any suggestions for a suitable questionnaire?
There are some validated questionnaires for children with sleep problems.
Pediatric sleep questionnaire (PSQ): validity and reliability of scales for sleep-disordered breathing, snoring, sleepiness, and behavioral problems. Chervin RD, Hedger K, Dillon JE, Pituch KJ. Sleep Med. 2000 Feb 1;1(1):21-32.
The PSQ is a 67 item instrument which has been validated in a wider age range, 4 to 18 years. The answers to the questions on the PSQ are: yes/no/don’t know, which makes it simpler to use. The PSQ covers a wide range of sleep problems in children and has a sleepiness subscale, and a sleep related breathing disorder subscale, (which is the only non-PSG tool found to be useful in identifying obstructive sleep apnea). The PSQ has been used in clinical research and isapplicable to screening as well.
The Children’s Sleep Habits Questionnaire (CHSQ) is a 35 item, 3-page questionnaire validated for 4 to 10 year old children, but often used in children from 2 to 18 years. The questions characterize 8 subscales—bedtime resistance, sleep onset delay, sleep duration, sleep anxiety, nightwaking, parasomnias, sleep disordered breathing, and daytime sleepiness. The CHSQ queries about sleep symptoms which occur (a) usually (5 to7 nights per week), (b) sometimes (2 to 4 nights per week) or (c) rarely (0 to 1 night per week); which leads to an overall score as well as subscale scores. The CHSQ has been used in clinical research, but is applicable to screening as well.
A Brief Screening Questionnaire for Infant Sleep Problems: Avi Sadeh, Pediatrics 2004;113;e570.
Very many thanks , will investigate further. Suggestions form others also very welcome
Blunden (2006) contains a nice review and discusses the measurement of children's sleep problems: https://wiki.umms.med.umich.edu/download/attachments/125274436/Sleepiness+in+Children.pdf?version=1&modificationDate=1340970596000.
Gozal and colleagues offer an excellent paper to help you consider whether the scale you have selected is any good: http://www.smrv-journal.com/article/S1087-0792%2810%2900064-X/abstract and also review the available scales: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20934896. Consider searching David Gozal's ResearchGate page: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/David_Gozal2/.
There is an adolescent version of the CSHQ, so this might fit your bill, although the last time I used it less had been published about this older child version than the younger child version and both are quite long. Judith Owens was very helpful in explaining how to score it and in providing the measures for our use.
http://download.springer.com/static/pdf/933/bfm%253A978-1-4419-9893-4%252F1.pdf?auth66=1401663587_22021cbccce79e775b371c50a25cf707&ext=.pdf
Http://www.thoracic.org/assemblies/srn/questionaires/psq.php
Http://www.northtexaslungandsleepclinic.com/forms/pediatricsleep.pdf
Http://archotol.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=484678
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