Hi Susamma,

The Pittsburgh sleep quality index ( PSQI) is currently the most frequently used measure of sleep quality in various clinical samples and general population’ samples, and it shows a good ability to detect persons with poor sleep quality.

I suggest you also add a single- item question asking your participants how he or she would rate his or her sleep quality on a likert scale. Something like: ‘If you consider all aspects of your sleep, how would you rate its quality?’ This way you will find which sub scale (s) of the PSQI has most relevance to your participants’ sleep quality.

Hope this helps. Best wishes with your research.

Tatyana

Dear Susamma,

thank you for your question, we used the Leeds Sleep Evaluation Questionnaire (LSEQ ) . The LSEQ is a validated, self-reporting instrument comprising ten 100-mm visual analog scales which ask for differnt items: Getting To Sleep (GTS, 3 scales); Quality Of Sleep (QOS, 2 scales); Awakening From Sleep (AFS, 2 scales); and Behavior Following Wakening (BFW, 3 scales). From each of the ten scales and four domains, the total LSEQ score ranges from −50 (largest improvement), 0 (no change) to +50 (severest worsening).

Best regards

Michael

Hi,

There is the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index Questionnaire (IQSP) developed and validated by Buysse et al. (1989), with a sensitivity of 89.6% and a specificity of 86.5%. This questionnaire was also translated and validated for use in several countries in the Spanish, Dutch, Japanese, French, Chinese, German, Hebrew and Swedish versions .

This questionnaire consists of seven domains, and questions related to sleep habits regarding the previous month in which the individual is. The items are grouped into seven components, whose scores vary from 0 to 3, being: a) Subjective quality of sleep, that is, to individual perception about sleep quality; b) Sleep latency; c) Sleep duration, obtained through the relation between the number of hours spent sleeping and the number of hours spent in bed, not necessarily sleeping; d) Normal sleep efficiency; e) Sleep disorders, that is, the presence of situations that compromise the hours of sleep; f) Use of medications, ie whether or not the patient used sleeping pills; g) Daytime sleepiness and disturbances during the day, referring to the change in disposition and enthusiasm to perform routine activities;

The set of components totalizes a score that varies from 0 to 21, where the scores of 0 to 5 indicated a good quality of sleep, greater than 5 poor quality of sleep and greater than 10 presence of disturbances.

best wishes

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