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Validating the Children’s Sleep Habits Questionnaire Against Polysomnography and Actigraphy in School-Aged Children
Sleep is a vital physiological behavior in children’s development, and as such it is important to be able to efficiently and accurately assess whether children display difficulties with sleep quality and quantity. The Children’s Sleep Habits Questionnaire [CSHQ; (1)] is one of the most commonly used...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4285019/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25610402 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2014.00188 |
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author | Markovich, Adria Nora Gendron, Melissa Anne Corkum, Penny Violet |
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description | Sleep is a vital physiological behavior in children’s development, and as such it is important to be able to efficiently and accurately assess whether children display difficulties with sleep quality and quantity. The Children’s Sleep Habits Questionnaire [CSHQ; (1)] is one of the most commonly used assessment tools for pediatric sleep. However, this instrument has never been validated against the gold standard of sleep measurement [i.e., polysomnography (PSG)], and studies comparing it to actigraphy are limited. Therefore, the current study assessed the validity of four subscales of the CSHQ via direct comparison with PSG and actigraphy for 30 typically developing school-aged children (ages 6–12). No significant correlations between relevant CSHQ subscales and PSG variables were found. In terms of the actigraphy variables, only the CSHQ Night Wakings subscale achieved significance. In addition, sensitivity and specificity analyses revealed consistently low sensitivity and high specificity. Overall, the CSHQ Sleep Onset Delay, Sleep Duration, Night Wakings, and Sleep Disordered Breathing subscales showed low construct validity and diagnostic validity. These results underscore that caution should be taken when using the CSHQ as the sole screening tool for sleep problems in children. |
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spelling | pubmed-42850192015-01-21 Validating the Children’s Sleep Habits Questionnaire Against Polysomnography and Actigraphy in School-Aged Children Markovich, Adria Nora Gendron, Melissa Anne Corkum, Penny Violet Front Psychiatry Psychiatry Sleep is a vital physiological behavior in children’s development, and as such it is important to be able to efficiently and accurately assess whether children display difficulties with sleep quality and quantity. The Children’s Sleep Habits Questionnaire [CSHQ; (1)] is one of the most commonly used assessment tools for pediatric sleep. However, this instrument has never been validated against the gold standard of sleep measurement [i.e., polysomnography (PSG)], and studies comparing it to actigraphy are limited. Therefore, the current study assessed the validity of four subscales of the CSHQ via direct comparison with PSG and actigraphy for 30 typically developing school-aged children (ages 6–12). No significant correlations between relevant CSHQ subscales and PSG variables were found. In terms of the actigraphy variables, only the CSHQ Night Wakings subscale achieved significance. In addition, sensitivity and specificity analyses revealed consistently low sensitivity and high specificity. Overall, the CSHQ Sleep Onset Delay, Sleep Duration, Night Wakings, and Sleep Disordered Breathing subscales showed low construct validity and diagnostic validity. These results underscore that caution should be taken when using the CSHQ as the sole screening tool for sleep problems in children. Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-01-06 /pmc/articles/PMC4285019/ /pubmed/25610402 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2014.00188 Text en Copyright © 2015 Markovich, Gendron and Corkum. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychiatry Markovich, Adria Nora Gendron, Melissa Anne Corkum, Penny Violet Validating the Children’s Sleep Habits Questionnaire Against Polysomnography and Actigraphy in School-Aged Children |
title | Validating the Children’s Sleep Habits Questionnaire Against Polysomnography and Actigraphy in School-Aged Children |
title_full | Validating the Children’s Sleep Habits Questionnaire Against Polysomnography and Actigraphy in School-Aged Children |
title_fullStr | Validating the Children’s Sleep Habits Questionnaire Against Polysomnography and Actigraphy in School-Aged Children |
title_full_unstemmed | Validating the Children’s Sleep Habits Questionnaire Against Polysomnography and Actigraphy in School-Aged Children |
title_short | Validating the Children’s Sleep Habits Questionnaire Against Polysomnography and Actigraphy in School-Aged Children |
title_sort | validating the children’s sleep habits questionnaire against polysomnography and actigraphy in school-aged children |
topic | Psychiatry |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4285019/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25610402 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2014.00188 |
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