The Sleep Condition Indicator: a clinical screening tool to evaluate insomnia disorder.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Describe the development and psychometric validation of a brief scale (the Sleep Condition Indicator (SCI)) to evaluate insomnia disorder in everyday clinical practice.

Design

The SCI was evaluated across five study samples. Content validity, internal consistency and concurrent validity were investigated.

Participants

30 941 individuals (71% female) completed the SCI along with other descriptive demographic and clinical information.

Setting

Data acquired on dedicated websites.

Results

The eight-item SCI (concerns about getting to sleep, remaining asleep, sleep quality, daytime personal functioning, daytime performance, duration of sleep problem, nights per week having a sleep problem and extent troubled by poor sleep) had robust internal consis

SUBMITTER: Espie CA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3964344 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature