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The Pittsburgh sleep quality index: A new instrument for psychiatric practice and research

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The Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) developed and tested its first wave of adult self-reported health outcome item banks: 2005-2008.

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The consensus sleep diary: standardizing prospective sleep self-monitoring.

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The Consensus Sleep Diary was the result of collaborations with insomnia experts and potential users and is intended as a living document which still needs to be tested, refined, and validated.
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Sleep health: can we define it? Does it matter?

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The concept of sleep health synergizes with other health care agendas, such as empowering individuals and communities, improving population health, and reducing health care costs, and offers the field of sleep medicine new research and clinical opportunities.
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Sleep-related breathing disorders in adults: Recommendations for syndrome definition and measurement techniques in clinical research

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This publication addresses the issue of lack of uniform definitions as well as the clinical overlap between the Pickwickian syndrome, OSAHS, and CSAS by proposing a set of standard criteria for defining apnea events and syndromes.
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Recommendations for a standard research assessment of insomnia.

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The resulting key recommendations for standard research assessment of insomnia disorders include definitions/diagnosis of insomnia and comorbid conditions; measures of sleep and insomnia, including qualitative insomnia measures, diary, polysomnography, and actigraphy.
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The Pittsburgh Sleep Diary

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The Pittsburgh Sleep Diary is an instrument with separate components to be completed at bedtime and waketime that was shown to have sensitivity in detecting differences due to weekends, age, gender, personality and circadian type, and validity in agreeing with actigraphic estimates of sleep timing and quality.
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Recommended Amount of Sleep for a Healthy Adult: A Joint Consensus Statement of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and Sleep Research Society.

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A consensus recommendation for the amount of sleep needed to promote optimal health in adults, using a modified RAND Appropriateness Method process, is summarized here.
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Relationships between the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI), Epworth Sleepiness Scale (ESS), and clinical/polysomnographic measures in a community sample.

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The PSQI is more closely related to psychological symptom ratings and sleep diary measures than the ESS, and these instruments are not likely to be useful as screening measures for polysomnographic sleep abnormalities.
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Development of Short Forms From the PROMISâ„¢ Sleep Disturbance and Sleep-Related Impairment Item Banks

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The short forms had greater measurement precision than the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) and the Epworth Sleepiness Scale (ESS), as indicated by larger test information values across the continuum of severity, despite having fewer total items—a major advantage for both research and clinical settings.
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