Evidence-based assessment/Instruments/Children Sleep Habits Questionnaire
The Children's Sleep Habits Questionnaire (CSHQ) is a psychological questionnaire designed to measure sleep behaviors in children and adolescents ages 4–12. The 52-question test is filled out by the parent, and the parent is asked to rate the frequency of the described sleep behaviors that their child has engaged in over the last week. It takes approximately 10 to 15 minutes to complete the questionnaire.[1]
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CSHQ can identify behaviorally based and medically based sleep problems in children with and without neurodevelopment diagnoses.[2] [3]
Scoring and interpretation
editEach question on the test addresses the frequency of the following behavioral characteristics pertaining to sleep: bedtime resistance, sleep-onset delay, sleep duration, sleep anxiety, night waking, parasomnia, sleep disordered breathing, and daytime sleepiness. Parents are also asked if each behavioral characteristic is a current issue for the child.
Only 33 of the 52 questions on the CSHQ are scored, for a maximum total score of 99. Each question is scored on a 1-3 scale, from “rarely (0-1 times a week),” “sometimes (2-4 times),” and “usually (5-7 times).” 6 of the 33 questions scored have the reverse scaling, so “rarely” would correspond to 3 points, and so on.
A total score of 41 and above suggests significant sleep problems for the child.
References
edit- ↑ Owens, JA; Spirito, A; McGuinn, M. (2000). "Children’s Sleep Habits Questionnaire (CSHQ)".
- ↑ Goodlin-Jones, BL; Sitnick, SL; Tang, K; Liu, J; Anders, TF (April 2008). "The Children's Sleep Habits Questionnaire in toddlers and preschool children.". Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics 29 (2): 82–88. doi:10.1097/dbp.0b013e318163c39a.
- ↑ Owens, JA; Spirito, A; McGuinn, M (15 December 2000). "The Children's Sleep Habits Questionnaire (CSHQ): psychometric properties of a survey instrument for school-aged children.". Sleep 23 (8): 1043–51. doi:10.1093/sleep/23.8.1d.