Sleep Items in the Child Behavior Checklist: A Comparison With Sleep Diaries, Actigraphy, and Polysomnography

Assessing sleep using the Child Behavior Checklist exclusively is not ideal. Nonetheless, certain Child Behavior Checklist items (e.g., “trouble sleeping”) may be valuable. Although the Child Behavior Checklist may provide a means of examining some aspects of sleep from existing datasets that do not include other measures of sleep, hypotheses generated from such analyses need to be tested using more rigorous measures of sleep.