Department of Pediatrics, Comer Children's Hospital, The University of Chicago, 5721 S. Maryland Avenue, MC 8000, Suite K-160 Chicago, IL 60637, USA.
Sleep Med Rev. 2011 Feb;15(1):19-32. doi: 10.1016/j.smrv.2010.07.005. Epub 2010 Oct 8.
An extensive list of published and unpublished instruments used to investigate or evaluate sleep issues in children was collected and assessed based on the fundamental operational principles of instrument development (11 steps). Of all the available tools identified, only a few were validated and standardized using appropriate psychometric criteria. In fact, only 2 fulfill all desirable criteria and approximately 11 instruments seem to adhere to most of the psychometric tool development requirements, and were therefore assessed in greater detail. Notwithstanding, in the rapidly developing scientific world of pediatric sleep, there are too many tools being used that have not undergone careful and methodical psychometric evaluation, and as such may be fraught with biased or invalid findings. It is hoped that this initial effort in categorizing and assessing available tools for pediatric sleep will serve as recognition of the relatively early developmental stage of our field, and provide the necessary impetus for future tool development using multicentered approaches and adequate methodologies.
收集并评估了大量已发表和未发表的用于研究或评估儿童睡眠问题的仪器，这些仪器是基于仪器开发的基本操作原则（11 个步骤）。在所确定的所有可用工具中，只有少数工具使用适当的心理计量学标准进行了验证和标准化。实际上，只有 2 个工具完全符合所有理想的标准，大约 11 个工具似乎符合大多数心理计量工具开发的要求，因此对它们进行了更详细的评估。尽管如此，在儿科睡眠的快速发展的科学领域中，有太多未经仔细和系统的心理计量评估就使用的工具，因此可能存在有偏差或无效的发现。希望对儿科睡眠的现有工具进行分类和评估的这一初步努力将被视为我们领域的相对早期发展阶段，并为未来使用多中心方法和适当方法的工具开发提供必要的动力。
