Translated Varsion of Factor Analysis of Sleep Evaluation Questionnaire(SEQ)

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to validate and evaluate the sleep evaluation questionnaire developed by Parrot and Hindmarch. SEQ comprises 10 self-rating 100-mm-line analogue questions which are concerned with uarious aspects of sleep and early morning behaviour. SEQ is divided into 4 domains including GTS (The ease of getting to sleep. 3 questions.), QOS (The perceived quality of sleep. 2 questions.) , AFS (The ease of awakening from sleep. 2 questions.) and BFW (The integrity of behaviour following wakefulness. 3 questions.) In this study, we selected 313 healthy adult subjects and analysed them with varimax rotation. There exists positive correlation between GTS and QOS and also exists positive correlation between AFS and BFW. This is exactly the same as the result of Parrot and Hindmarch. The result suggests that translated version of SEQ will be reliable, valid and useful for assesing QOL in sleep condition.