Examining the reliability and validity of the arabic version of the Glasgow Sleep Effort Scale (GSES).
Abdulmajeed Abdullah AlghamdiSalma Yasser Abu-SalehYara Abdullah AlmohayaHind Khayran AlamriHadeel Ali GhazzawiKhaled TrabelsiZahra SaifAhmed Salem BaHammamSeithikurippu R Pandi-PerumalHaitham A JahramiPublished in: Sleep & breathing = Schlaf & Atmung (2024)
This is the first study in which the GSES was validated in Arabic. This allows the scale to reliably gauge sleep effort among Arabic speakers, providing new clinical and research opportunities to understand how maladaptive sleep effort may contribute to insomnia and suboptimal sleep in this demographic population.