Development and Validation of the Adolescent Insomnia Questionnaire.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Insomnia is a highly prevalent sleep disorder that is particularly common among adolescents with health conditions. We aimed to develop and validate a brief screening measure of insomnia in adolescents that can be used across clinical and community samples. We hypothesized that we would identify evidence supporting reliability, convergent/discriminant validity, and that we would determine preliminary clinical cutoff scores.

Methods

A team of experts in behavioral sleep medicine developed a 13-item brief screening measure of insomnia in adolescents (Adolescent Insomnia Questionnaire [AIQ]). We evaluated the psychometric properties of the AIQ in a sample of 315 youth (11-18 years old, Mean = 14.90, SD = 2.02; 64% female) who had chronic pain (n = 37), headache (n = 1

SUBMITTER: Bromberg MH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8205502 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature