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ArticleJournal of pediatric psychology2020

Development and Validation of the Adolescent Insomnia Questionnaire.

Maggie H Bromberg, Rocio de la Vega, Emily F Law, Chuan Zhou, Tonya M Palermo

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Article in Journal of pediatric psychology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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17 citing papers in PubMed, 32 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Maggie H BrombergCenter for Child Health, Behavior and Development, Seattle Children's Research Institute.
Rocio de la VegaCenter for Child Health, Behavior and Development, Seattle Children's Research Institute.
Emily F LawCenter for Child Health, Behavior and Development, Seattle Children's Research Institute.
Chuan ZhouCenter for Child Health, Behavior and Development, Seattle Children's Research Institute.
Tonya M PalermoCenter for Child Health, Behavior and Development, Seattle Children's Research Institute.
University of Washington · US

Funding

Psychosocial and Family Risk in Pediatric Chronic MigraineK23NS089966 · NINDS · SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL · PI LAW, EMILY F · 2015 to 2019
$741k
NINDS NIH HHS K23 NS089966
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveInsomnia 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.

methodsA 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 = 170), insomnia diagnosed by a sleep specialist (n = 22), or were otherwise healthy (n = 86).

resultsUsing Exploratory and Confirmatory Factor Analysis, we identified three subscales consistent with major diagnostic criteria of insomnia. As expected, the measure showed strong reliability through high internal consistency (α =.91). We also found strong convergent validity through expected positive relationships between the AIQ and self-report measures of sleep disturbance, and divergent validity via weak relationships with parent-report of snoring. Results of receiver operating characteristic (ROC) identified a clinical cutoff score that may assist in clinical decision making.

conclusionsWe found that the AIQ has sound psychometric properties in a large heterogeneous sample of treatment-seeking youth and youth from the community. The AIQ can quickly screen adolescent insomnia and could address an important clinical need in identifying youth in need of insomnia treatment in pediatric practice settings.

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AdolescentChildFactor Analysis, StatisticalFemaleHumansMalePsychometricsReproducibility of ResultsSelf ReportSleepSleep Initiation and Maintenance DisordersSurveys and Questionnairesdevelopmental perspectivespainsleep

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PMID31584648
PMCPMC8205502
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