Reliability and validity of the brief insomnia questionnaire in the America insomnia survey.

ABSTRACT:

Study objectives

to evaluate the reliability and validity of the Brief Insomnia Questionnaire (BIQ), a fully structured questionnaire developed to diagnose insomnia according to hierarchy-free Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, Fourth Edition, Text Revision (DSM-IV-TR), International Classification of Diseases-10 (ICD-10), and research diagnostic criteria/International Classification of Sleep Disorders-2 (RDC/ICSD-2) general criteria without organic exclusions in the America Insomnia Survey (AIS).

Design

probability subsamples of AIS respondents, oversampling BIQ positives, completed short-term test-retest interviews (n = 59) or clinical reappraisal interviews (n = 203) to assess BIQ reliability and validity.

Setting

the AIS is a large (n = 10,094) epidemiologic surve

SUBMITTER: Kessler RC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2954704 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature