The use of an online Epworth Sleepiness Scale to assess excessive daytime sleepiness

Excessive daytime sleepiness.

Excessive daytime sleepiness is one of the most common sleep-related patient symptoms, and it affects an estimated 20 percent of the population. Persons with excessive daytime sleepiness are at risk of motor vehicle and work-related incidents, and have poorer health than comparable adults. The most common causes of excessive daytime sleepiness are sleep deprivation, obstructive sleep apnea, and...

The multiple sleep latency test and Epworth sleepiness scale in the assessment of daytime sleepiness.

The Cleveland adolescent sleepiness questionnaire: a new measure to assess excessive daytime sleepiness in adolescents.

STUDY OBJECTIVE Developed the Cleveland Adolescent Sleepiness Questionnaire (CASQ), a brief, self-completed instrument to measure excessive daytime sleepiness in adolescents. DESIGN Cross-sectional analysis. PARTICIPANTS A subsample of 411 adolescents 11-17 years of age recruited from area schools, churches, and "control" participants in a sleep disordered breathing cohort study; a second s...

Pharmacotherapy for excessive daytime sleepiness.

Excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) has recognized detrimental consequences such as road traffic accidents, impaired psychological functioning and reduced work performance. EDS can result from multiple causes such as sleep deprivation, sleep fragmentation, neurological, psychiatric and circadian rhythm disorders. Treating the underlying cause of EDS remains the mainstay of therapy but in those w...

A Cause of Excessive Daytime Sleepiness. The

Chest C Guilleminault, R Stoohs, A Clerk, M Cetel and P Maistros upper airway resistance syndrome. A cause of excessive daytime sleepiness. The http://chestjournal.chestpubs.org/content/104/3/781 can be found online on the World Wide Web at: The online version of this article, along with updated information and services ) ISSN:0012-3692 http://chestjournal.chestpubs.org/site/misc/reprints.xhtml...