Validity of the Italian Version of the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI)

Neurological Sciences

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 511-519

  Curcio, Giuseppe ^a,b   Tempesta, Daniela ^a   Scarlata, Simone ^c   Marzano, Cristina ^d   Moroni, Fabio ^e   Rossini, Paolo Maria ^b,f   Ferrara, Michele ^a   De Gennaro, Luigi ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^b IRCCS S Raffaele   (Italy)

^c FONDAZIONE POLICLINICO UNIVERSITARIO A GEMELLI IRCCS   (Italy)

^d SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^f CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dementia; Depression; OSAS; Sleep complaints; Sleep quality; Validation studies

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRONBACH ALPHA COEFFICIENT; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; ITALY; LANGUAGE; MALE; NIGHT SLEEP; PITTSBURGH SLEEP QUALITY INDEX; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; REFERENCE VALUE; RELIABILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING; SLEEP QUALITY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AREA UNDER CURVE; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROC CURVE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SLEEP APNEA, OBSTRUCTIVE; TRANSLATING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84879684984     PISSN: 15901874     EISSN: 15903478     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10072-012-1085-y     Document Type: Article

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