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Maria M Wong1, Kirk J Brower2, Deirdre A Conroy2

  • 1Department of Psychology, Idaho State University, Pocatello, ID, 83209, USA.

Nature and Science of Sleep
|December 6, 2022
PubMed

Insights

Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) sleep items align with objective actigraphy and validated questionnaires. These findings hold true for children of parents with alcohol use disorder (COAs) and controls, validating CBCL sleep measures.

Area of Science:

  • Child Psychology
  • Sleep Medicine
  • Addiction Research

Background:

  • The Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) is a common tool for assessing child psychosocial functioning.
  • CBCL sleep items are frequently used, but their correlation with objective sleep measures needs further investigation.
  • Few studies have validated CBCL sleep items against actigraphy and other sleep questionnaires.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To examine the relationship between CBCL sleep items and objective sleep measures (actigraphy).
  • To assess the correlation of CBCL sleep items with a validated sleep questionnaire (PSQ).
  • To investigate these relationships in children of parents with alcohol use disorder (COAs) and matched controls.

Main Methods:

  • Participants included 248 children aged 8-12, with 48% identified as COAs.
  • Data collection involved parent-reported CBCL, PSQ, actigraphy, and youth-reported YSR.
  • Statistical analyses included multiple regression, logistic regression, and structural equation modeling.

Main Results:

  • CBCL sleep items correlated significantly with actigraphy measures (e.g., total sleep time, sleep onset latency).
  • CBCL sleep items also correlated with PSQ items (e.g., sleep difficulties, daytime sleepiness).
  • CBCL sleep items predicted similar self-reported sleep issues in the Youth Self-Report (YSR).

Conclusions:

  • CBCL sleep items demonstrate significant associations with actigraphy and validated sleep measures.
  • These associations were consistent across both COAs and non-COA groups.
  • The findings support the validity of CBCL sleep items as a measure of children's sleep functioning.
Abstract

Keywords:
Youth Self-Reportactigraphchildrenparental ratingssleep measures

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