Reliability of parent report measures of sleep in children with Down syndrome.
A J Esbensen, E K Hoffman
PMID 27469584WHAT IT FOUND
Parent sleep questionnaires did not agree on how many children with Down syndrome had sleep problems.
The CSHQ total flagged 79.3%, the SDSC cut-off flagged 72.4%, and the BEDS total flagged none.
Key findings
01The BEDS total score identified no children in the clinical range, while the CSHQ total score identified 79.3%.
02The SDSC total score flagged 17.2% using the two standard deviation rule, but 72.4% using the cut-off provided by the authors.
03The CSHQ total score was correlated with nightly waking, stopping breathing, motor jerking, and daytime drowsiness, while the BEDS only showed a diary link for Sleep Apnea & Bruxism.
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What it does not show
The paper says the number of children was small. It did not include ratings from multiple parents, and it did not evaluate inter-rater reliability. Only 30 children were studied. The sample was 60% male, 93.3% Caucasian, and 96.6% of respondents were mothers. The children were 6 to 17 years old and had Kaufman Brief Intelligence Test-2 scores from 40 to 65.
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The easy way to misread this
Do not read these questionnaires as proof that a child has a sleep disorder or needs treatment. The study tested parent report scores in 30 children, and the BEDS total score flagged none despite other scores flagging many.