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Escala de Crenças e Atitudes Disfuncionais sobre o Sono – Versão Reduzida – 16 itens

(DBAS-SF-16)

Research Group
CBPI
Contacts Vanda Maria Oliveira Clemente

TITLE OF THE PORTUGUESE VERSION

Escala de Crenças e Atitudes Disfuncionais sobre o Sono – Versão Reduzida – 16 itens

ORIGINAL VERSION

Clemente, V., & Allen Gomes, A. (2022)

GENERAL DESCRIPTION

The DBAS-SF-16 is a European Portuguese short version of the DBAS designed to differentiate dysfunctional beliefs about sleep and insomnia in clinical and non-clinical settings. It consists of 16 items evaluated on a 10-point Likert scale, ranging from 0 (“strongly disagree”) to 10 (“strongly agree”). This short version of the DBAS includes two factors: Consequences and Helplessness and Medication and Hopelessness.

A cut-off score of 4.3 makes it possible to detect the level of dysfunctional beliefs associated with clinical insomnia, i.e. to identify who may be at risk of developing insomnia.

REFERENCES

  • Clemente, V., Marques, D. R., Miller-Mendes, M., Morin, C. M., Serra, J., & Allen Gomes, A. (2023). The Dysfunctional Beliefs and Attitudes about Sleep Scale: Dimensions of the European Portuguese DBAS-30 and development of a new short version (DBAS-SF-16). Sleep Medicine, 106, 59-68. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sleep.2023.03.021 [Published online: 24/03/2023].

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