Translation, Validation, and Cross-Cultural Adaptation of an Arabic Version of the "Sleep Disturbances Scale for Children" (SDSC).

IF 2.2 3区医学 Q3 CLINICAL NEUROLOGY

Behavioral Sleep Medicine Pub Date : 2025-07-17 DOI:10.1080/15402002.2025.2529863

Razane El Hajj Chehade, Jad Costa, Mabel Aoun, Muhamad Serhal, Nadine Cheaib, Ghassan Sleilaty, Oliviero Bruni, Jeanine El Helou

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Abstract

Objective: This study aimed to translate, validate, and adapt an Arabic version of the "Sleep Disturbances Scale for Children" (SDSC).

Materials and methods: The process involved translation, synthesis, supervision, and back-translation, followed by expert committee review and pretesting. Psychometric testing included an online questionnaire on socio-demographic characteristics, the Arabic and English versions of SDSC, launched online from June to August 2022. Cronbach's alpha coefficient, intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC), and Cohen's Kappa coefficient were measured to evaluate internal consistency, overall questionnaire reliability, and inter-judge reliability of each questionnaire item, respectively. An exploratory factor analysis (EFA) was then conducted to study construct validity.

Results: 409 respondents, predominantly mothers, participated in this study. The mean score of the average of the English and Arabic versions was 1.78 ± 0.61 and 1.66 ± 0.51, respectively. The Cronbach's alpha was estimated at 0.92 for the English version and 0.88 for the Arabic version. ICC showed good reliability and agreement between the two tests, which was 0.82. EFA allowed the extraction of 7 underlying factors in the questionnaire.

Conclusion: Our Arabic version of the SDSC is a reliable, valid, and adapted tool, allowing the assessment of sleep disorders in children in the Arab world.

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阿拉伯语版“儿童睡眠障碍量表”（SDSC）的翻译、验证和跨文化适应。

目的：本研究旨在翻译、验证和改编阿拉伯语版本的“儿童睡眠障碍量表”（SDSC）。材料和方法：过程包括翻译、合成、监督和反译，然后由专家委员会审查和预测。心理测量测试包括一份关于社会人口特征的在线问卷，即SDSC的阿拉伯语和英语版本，于2022年6月至8月在网上发布。采用Cronbach’s alpha系数、class内相关系数（ICC）和Cohen’s Kappa系数分别评价问卷各条目的内部一致性、整体信度和法官间信度。然后进行探索性因子分析（EFA）来研究构念效度。结果：409名受访者，主要是母亲，参与了这项研究。英文和阿拉伯语版本的平均得分分别为1.78±0.61和1.66±0.51。英语版本的Cronbach’s alpha估计为0.92，阿拉伯语版本的Cronbach’s alpha估计为0.88。两个检验的ICC信度和一致性较好，为0.82。EFA允许从问卷中提取7个潜在因素。结论：我们的阿拉伯语版SDSC是一种可靠、有效和适应性强的工具，可用于评估阿拉伯世界儿童的睡眠障碍。

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Behavioral Sleep Medicine CLINICAL NEUROLOGY-PSYCHIATRY

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7.20

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3.20%

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>12 weeks

期刊介绍： Behavioral Sleep Medicine addresses behavioral dimensions of normal and abnormal sleep mechanisms and the prevention, assessment, and treatment of sleep disorders and associated behavioral and emotional problems. Standards for interventions acceptable to this journal are guided by established principles of behavior change. Intending to serve as the intellectual home for the application of behavioral/cognitive science to the study of normal and disordered sleep, the journal paints a broad stroke across the behavioral sleep medicine landscape. Its content includes scholarly investigation of such areas as normal sleep experience, insomnia, the relation of daytime functioning to sleep, parasomnias, circadian rhythm disorders, treatment adherence, pediatrics, and geriatrics. Multidisciplinary approaches are particularly welcome. The journal’ domain encompasses human basic, applied, and clinical outcome research. Behavioral Sleep Medicine also embraces methodological diversity, spanning innovative case studies, quasi-experimentation, randomized trials, epidemiology, and critical reviews.