Cole, Jason C., Dubois, Dominique & Kosinski, Mark. (2007). Use of Patient-Reported Sleep Measures in Clinical Trials of Pain Treatment: A Literature Review and Synthesis of Current Sleep Measures and a Conceptual Model of Sleep Disturbance in Pain. Clinical Therapeutics, 29 (theme issue): 2580-2588.
Hays, Ron D., Martin, Susan A., Sesti, Anne M., & Spritzer, Karen L. (2005). Psychometric properties of the Medical Outcomes Study sleep measure. Sleep Medicine, 6(1), 41-44. (abstract available here.)
Hays, R.D., & Stewart, A.L. (1992a). Sleep measures. In A.L. Stewart & J.E. Eare (eds.), Measuring functioning and well-being: The Medical Outcomes Study approach (pp.235-259), Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
Rejas, J., Ribera, M. V., Ruiz, M. & Masrramon, X. (2007). Psychometric properties of the MOS (Medical Outcomes Study) Sleep Scale in patients with neuropathic pain. Eur J Pain, 11:329-40.
Sadosky, A., Dukes, E. & Evans, C. (2009). Reliability of a 1-week recall period for the medical outcomes survey sleep scale (mos-s) in patients with fibromyalgia. Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 7(12). (abstract available here; provisional PDF available here) [added 2/11/09]
Viala-Danten, M., Martin, S., Guillemin I., & Hays, R.D. (2008). Evaluation of the reliability and validity of the medical outcomes study sleep scale in patients with painful diabetic peripheral neuropathy during an international clinical trial. Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 6(1). (abstract available here.) [added 12/22/08]
Wolfe, F., Miochaud, K., & Li, T. (2006). Sleep disturbance in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: evaluation by Medical Outcomes Study and Visual Analog Sleep Scales. J Rheumatology, 33 (10): 1942-51.
Yang, Min, Dubois, Dominique, Kosinski, Mark, Sun, Xiaowu & Gajria, Kavita. (2007). Mapping MOS Sleep Scale scores to SF-6D utility index. Current Medical Research and Opinion, 23(9): 2269-2282.
Xu, S., Brandenburg, N. A., McDermott, A. M. & Bazil, C. W. (2006). Sleep disturbances reported by refractory partial-onset epilepsy patients receiving polytherapy. Epilepsia, 47(7): 1176-83.
The MOS Sleep Scale has been translated into a variety of languages. We have been informed of the following translations - (current as of 8/23/2004)
Pfizer:
Dutch (Belgium, the Netherlands)
French (Canada, France)
German
Italian
Polish
Portuguese
Spanish (Spain, United States)
QualityMetric (added to site 1/14/2009) NOTE! QualityMetric is now OPTUM
https://www.optum.com/optum-outcomes/what-we-do/generic-health-surveys/mos-sleep-scale.html (link updated 4/15/2016)
Translations of the MOS Sleep Scale (12- and 6-item versions) are made available through their website at https://www.optum.com/optum-outcomes/survey-request-form.html
Translations are available for the following countries and languages: https://www.optum.com/optum-outcomes/what-we-do/health-survey-translation/surveystranslation-tables.html
Among them are:
Go here for the MOS Sleep Scale Survey: http://www.rand.org/health/surveys_tools/mos/mos_sleep.html (link updated 9/26/2006)
We've also created a version of the survey that contains instructions for filling out the survey: (WORD: mos_sleep_survey_081016.docx) (PDF: mos_sleep_survey_081016.pdf). (added 8/10/2016)
MOS Sleep Scale: A Manual for Use and Scoring, Version 1.0 (added 12/8/2003)
General Population descriptive statistics (n=1011): (added 2/24/15)
| Variable | Label | N | Mean | Std Dev |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SLPD | Sleep Disturbance Scale | 1009 | 24.47 | 23.53 |
| SLPSNR | Snoring Scale | 756 | 28.33 | 35.09 |
| SLPSOB | Short of Breath Scale | 1003 | 9.45 | 19.21 |
| SLPQRAW | Raw Scores Sleep Quant | 999 | 6.79 | 1.42 |
| SLPA | Sleep Adequacy | 1010 | 60.47 | 29.96 |
| SLPS | Somnolence Scale | 1009 | 21.89 | 19.45 |
| SLP9 | Sleep Problems Index II | 1010 | 25.79 | 18.61 |
ROC results for the MOS sleep scale: here are the cumulative frequencies that will allow you to decide on whatever cutpoint you want to use: Do you consider yourself as having a sleep problem" (no/yes) by SLP9 Score.pdf (added 2/26/2010).
Ref: Hays, Ron D., Martin, Susan A., Sesti, Anne M., & Spritzer, Karen L. (2005). Psychometric properties of the Medical Outcomes Study sleep measure. Sleep Medicine, 6(1), 41-44. (see "Relevant Articles" above)
What else is new?
Daytime Consequences of Sleep Questionnaire (DCSQ) (Revision Date: 10 September, 2003) (added to site 12/16/2008)
The Restorative Sleep Questionnaire (RSQ) (Revision Date: 10 September, 2003) (added to site 12/9/2008)
