Persian version of brief infant sleep questionnaire (BISQ): a psychometric evaluation.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The high prevalence of sleep problems and their negative consequences on children and parents highlight the need to design early screening instruments to evaluate sleep problems in early childhood. We aimed to determine the validity and reliability of the Brief Infant Sleep Questionnaire (BISQ) among the Iranian population.

Methods and materials

This study included 646 one-year-old infants by random sampling from the PERSIAN birth cohort study. Following the forward-backward translation of the BISQ, its psychometric properties, including construct validity in terms of concurrent and convergent validities as well as reliability, were evaluated.

Results

The CVIs and CVR ranged between 0.8 and 1.00 for all items. Therefore, we keep all the items of the origina

SUBMITTER: Yazdi M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10941427 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature