Children’s Sleep Habits Questionnaire
The Children’s Sleep Habits Questionnaire (CSHQ) is a sleep questionnaire by Dr. Judith Owens for children aged 4 to 12 years, designed to screen for the most common sleep problems in that age group. The CSHQ focuses on sleep disorders common to this age group in three domains: Dyssomnias (difficulty getting to sleep or staying asleep), Parasomnias (sleepwalking/talking, night terrors, bedwetting, restless leg syndrome, etc), and Sleep-Disordered Breathing. A score of 41 or higher on the abbreviated CSHQ is considered by the authors to be an indicator for referral to a sleep specialist.
The CSHQ is not intended to be used to diagnose specific sleep disorders, but rather to identify the need for possible further evaluation. Reliability and validity data has been collected on a sample of 495 elementary school children and on a clinical sample from a pediatric sleep clinic. It would not seem valid to use this scoring cutoff for newly arrived adopted children given all of the transitional issues, but this questionnaire could certainly be useful in discussing sleep problems with your provider.
The following forms are available from the author's website, and are individually linked below:
CSHQ
Sleep Self Report
An excellent self-report survey for adolescents, The School Sleep Habits Survey" may be found under "Research and Publications" on Dr. Mary Carskadon's website sleepforscience.org
Oct 8, 2005
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Reader Comments (14)
Thank you,
Mary Beth Hickey, Systems Analyst
Have you tried the author? I don't have a scoring tool for that one. They seem to have a computerized scoring program that might apply, or other specific scoring instructions for the Adolescents questionnaire. Info at http://www.kidzzzsleep.org/contactus.htm ... if you don't hear from them let me know - I work with a former student of hers.
hello! is it possible to get the Children’s Sleep Habits Questionnaire (CSHQ) for free? thank you!
The links above seem free of charge to me. If you're using them for clinical, research, or for-profit, I'd contact the authors, though.
hi, which of these 2 tools SLEEP DISTURBANCE SCALE FOR CHILDREN & CHILDRENS SLEEP HABIT QUESTIONNAIRE is better?
I'm not familiar with the first one there, but here's an abstract describing it a bit.
good day. i will write a research paper regarding the sleep pattern of patients with pervasive developmental disorder. i would like to know how valid Children’s Sleep Habits Questionnaire is as a tool. thank you
I'm not the author of these questionnaires, but you can find contact information on their website ...
is it possible 4 me to use CSHQ to study the relationship between sleep habits and obesity in preschool children? is this test reliable for this study? if not, can you suggest other questionnaire to help me?
I don't think it's validated for preschoolers. I'd recommend you contact the authors (see above).
thanks for your answer,
is the CSHQ have the same scoring system as Adolescents Sleep Habits Questionnaire? Can i use CSHQ to study on Adolescents?
hiii
im doing research to find prevalence of sleeping disorders in adolescents
im not gettin an appropriate scoring for the adolescent scale
also is der any better scale than this?
Hi there
I don't seem to be able to open the parent questionnaire (school aged) version from this website. Any ideas?
Thanks
Hello to past and future commenters on this entry ... I am not the author of these questionnaires, and am not responsible for the content on their site. However, if you explore their site a bit, you will likely find what you seek. For now, I've updated the links, but they may break again.
As for the "what questionnaire should I use for my research" questions, I'd recommend you contact the actual authors and sleep specialists, not the guy who blogged about their survey.