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Espie Sleep Disturbance Questionnaire (SDQ)

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The SDQ is a 12-item scale designed to evaluate subjective experiences of insomnia. An analysis conducted by Espie and colleagues [1] revealed the four factors assessed by the scale: attributions regarding restlessness/agitation, attributions concerning mental overactivity, attributions concerning the consequences of insomnia, and attributions concerning lack of sleep readiness.

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  1. Espie, C. A., Inglis, S. J., Harvey, L., & Tessier, S. (2000). Insomniacs’ attributions: psychometric properties of the dysfunctional beliefs and attitudes about sleep scale and the sleep disturbance scale. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 48(2), 141–148.

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  • Harvey, A. G., Schmidt, D. A., Scarnà, A., Semler, C. N., & Goodwin, G. M. (2005). Sleep-related functioning in euthymic patients with bipolar disorder, patients with insomnia, and subjects without sleep problems. American Journal of Psychiatry, 162(1), 50–59.

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Shahid, A., Wilkinson, K., Marcu, S., Shapiro, C.M. (2011). Espie Sleep Disturbance Questionnaire (SDQ). In: Shahid, A., Wilkinson, K., Marcu, S., Shapiro, C. (eds) STOP, THAT and One Hundred Other Sleep Scales. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9893-4_30

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