Translation and cross-cultural adaptation of the Sleep-Related Breathing Disorder scale of the Pediatric Sleep Questionnaire into Vietnamese language

Objective: The Pediatric Sleep Questionnaire (PSQ) has shown to be a valuable screening tool with good sensitivity and specificity for obstructive sleep apnea among children. Our aim was cross-culturally translate adapt the PSQ into Vietnamese language clinical research using. Methods: version of SRBD-PSQ translated by University Michigan, which reserves copyrights. adapted questionnaire applied parents 60 children aged 6 - 14 years. reliability measured Cronbach α, Pearson correlation Kappa statistics. Results: high internal consistency Cronbach’s α (0.781 total test, 0.745 subscale “snoring”, 0.682 “sleepiness”, 0.763 “behaviour”). Test-retest all items presented correlation, statistic ranged between 0.498 0.832. Conclusion: sufficient validity measure outcome showed linguistically accurate acceptable use