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Clinical: specific disorders

Functional Outcomes of Sleep Questionnaire.

FOSQ

What it measures
Impact of excessive sleepiness on everyday functioning across 5 subscales - activity level, vigilance, intimacy and sexual relationships, general productivity, and social outcomes
Length and format
30 (FOSQ); 10 (FOSQ-10). 4-pt difficulty Likert with a not-applicable option (self-report questionnaire)
Language versions
20+ langs with formal linguistic validation (ES, PT, ZH, TR, FR, DE, IT, JA, NL, SV among them; approx)
Normative data
No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.
Licence
copyrighted - author permission

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Reference
Weaver, T.E., Laizner, A.M., Evans, L.K., et al. (1997). An instrument to measure functional status outcomes for disorders of excessive sleepiness. Sleep, 20(10), 835-843.

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