Validation of the Farsi version of the revised Adolescent Sleep Hygiene Scale (ASHSr): a cross-sectional study

BMC Psychiatry

Research Article

Azita Chehri¹  Soudabeh Eskandari²  Habibolah Khazaie²  Sepideh Khazaie²  Serge Brand³  Markus Gerber⁴  Edith Holsboer-Trachsler⁵ 

[1] Department of Psychology, Kermanshah Branch, Islamic Azad University, Kermanshah, Iran;Sleep Disorders Research Center, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences (KUMS), Kermanshah, Iran;Sleep Disorders Research Center, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences (KUMS), Kermanshah, Iran;Sleep Disorders Research Center, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences (KUMS), Kermanshah, Iran;University of Basel, Psychiatric Clinics (UKP), Center for Affective, Stress and Sleep Disorders (ZASS), Basel, Switzerland;University of Basel, Department of Sport, Exercise and Health, Division of Sport and Psychosocial Health, St. Jakob-Turm, Birsstrasse 320B, 4052, Basel, Switzerland;University of Basel, Department of Sport, Exercise and Health, Division of Sport and Psychosocial Health, St. Jakob-Turm, Birsstrasse 320B, 4052, Basel, Switzerland;University of Basel, Psychiatric Clinics (UKP), Center for Affective, Stress and Sleep Disorders (ZASS), Basel, Switzerland;

关键词: Adolescents;    Concurrent validity;    Confirmatory factor analysis;    Factorial validity;    Internal consistency;    Iran;    Sleep hygiene scale;    Adolescent;    Test-retest-reliability;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s12888-017-1578-6

 received in 2017-06-27, accepted in 2017-12-13,  发布年份 2017

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundRestoring sleep is associated with a broad variety of favorable cognitive, emotional, social and behavioral benefits during the day. This holds particularly true for adolescents, as maturational, social, cognitive, emotional and behavioral changes might unfavorably impact on adolescents’ sleep. Among adolescents, poor sleep hygiene practices are a potentially modifiable risk factor that can be addressed via appropriate interventions. Accordingly, having reliable and valid self-report measures to assess sleep hygiene practices is essential to gauge individual responses to behavioral interventions and evaluate sleep hygiene recommendations. The aim of the present study therefore was to translate and to test the psychometric properties (internal consistency, test-retest reliability, factorial and concurrent validity) of the Farsi/Persian version of the revised version of the Adolescent Sleep Hygiene Scale (ASHSr).MethodA total of 1013 adolescents (mean age: M = 15.4 years; SD = 1.2; range: 12–19 years; 42.9% females) completed the ASHSr and the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) in their classroom during an official school lesson. Further, 20% completed the ASHSr 6 weeks later to evaluate the test-retest reliability. Cronbach’s alpha coefficients were calculated to examine internal consistency, confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was used to test factorial validity, whereas concurrent validity and test-retest reliability were examined via correlation analyses.ResultsA first-order confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) corroborated the six-factor structure of the ASHSr, including a physiological, behavioral arousal, cognitive/emotional, daytime sleep, sleep environment, and sleep stability factor. A second-order CFA showed that a higher-order sleep hygiene construct explained sufficient variance in each factor. Cronbach’s alpha values ranged between .71 and .75, correlations for test-retest reliability between .82 and .87. Significant correlations were found between most ASHSr scales and the PSQI indices. However, the magnitude of these correlations was weak.ConclusionsThe Farsi/Persian version of the Adolescent Sleep Hygiene Scale can be used as a reliable and valid tool for evaluation of sleep hygiene practices among Farsi/Persian-speaking adolescents.

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