El Hajj Chehade Razane, Costa Jad, Aoun Mabel, Serhal Muhamad, Cheaib Nadine, Sleilaty Ghassan, Bruni Oliviero, El Helou Jeanine
Faculty of Medicine, Saint Joseph University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon.
Faculty of Medicine, Department of Neurology, Saint Joseph University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon.
Behav Sleep Med. 2025 Jul 17:1-13. doi: 10.1080/15402002.2025.2529863.
This study aimed to translate, validate, and adapt an Arabic version of the "Sleep Disturbances Scale for Children" (SDSC).
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.
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.
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.
本研究旨在翻译、验证并改编《儿童睡眠障碍量表》（SDSC）的阿拉伯语版本。
该过程包括翻译、综合、监督和回译，随后进行专家委员会审查和预测试。心理测量测试包括一份关于社会人口学特征的在线问卷、SDSC的阿拉伯语和英语版本，于2022年6月至8月在线发布。分别测量克朗巴哈α系数、组内相关系数（ICC）和科恩κ系数，以评估内部一致性、问卷整体可靠性以及每个问卷项目的评判间可靠性。然后进行探索性因子分析（EFA）以研究结构效度。
409名受访者参与了本研究，其中主要是母亲。英语和阿拉伯语版本平均分的平均得分分别为1.78±0.61和1.66±0.51。英语版本的克朗巴哈α系数估计为0.92，阿拉伯语版本为0.88。ICC显示两次测试之间具有良好的可靠性和一致性，为0.82。EFA允许在问卷中提取7个潜在因子。
我们的SDSC阿拉伯语版本是一个可靠、有效且经过改编的工具，可用于评估阿拉伯世界儿童的睡眠障碍。
