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Comparison of the results of the Epworth Sleepiness Scale and the Multiple Sleep Latency Test.

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In this article, the Epworth Sleepiness Scale (ESS) score correlated with the degree to which patients complained of sleepiness and may be useful as an otherwise elusive link between patients' complaints and their objective findings on MSLT.
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This article is published in Journal of Psychosomatic Research.The article was published on 1997-02-01. It has received 281 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Epworth Sleepiness Scale & Excessive daytime sleepiness.

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Relationships Between the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI), Epworth Sleepiness Scale (ESS), and Clinical/Polysomnographic Measures in a Community Sample

TL;DR: The PSQI is more closely related to psychological symptom ratings and sleep diary measures than the ESS, and these instruments are not likely to be useful as screening measures for polysomnographic sleep abnormalities.

Shift Work Sleep Disorder: Prevalence and Consequences Beyond that of Symptomatic Day Workers RAPID PUBLICATION

TL;DR: It is suggested that individuals with shift work sleep disorder are at risk for significant behavioral and health-related morbidity associated with their sleep-wake symptomatology.
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Distinguishing sleepiness and fatigue: focus on definition and measurement

TL;DR: While a number of subjective and objective measurement tools have been developed to measure sleepiness, each only captures a limited aspect of an otherwise heterogeneous entity.
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Development and validation of patient-reported outcome measures for sleep disturbance and sleep-related impairments.

TL;DR: The PROMIS sleep disturbance and SRI item banks have excellent measurement properties and may prove to be useful for assessing general aspects of sleep and Sri with various groups of patients and interventions.
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Sleepiness, Fatigue, Tiredness, and Lack of Energy in Obstructive Sleep Apnea

TL;DR: Complaints of fatigue, tiredness, or lack of energy may be as important as that of sleepiness to OSAS patients, among whom women appear to have all such complaints more frequently than men.
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A new method for measuring daytime sleepiness: the Epworth sleepiness scale.

TL;DR: The development and use of a new scale, the Epworth sleepiness scale (ESS), is described, which is a simple, self-administered questionnaire which is shown to provide a measurement of the subject's general level of daytime sleepiness.
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Quantification of sleepiness: a new approach.

TL;DR: The Stanford Sleepiness Scale (SSS) as discussed by the authors is a self-rating scale which is used to quantify progressive steps in sleepiness and it is cross-validated with performance on mental tasks.
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Reliability and factor analysis of the Epworth Sleepiness Scale.

TL;DR: Factor analysis of item scores showed that the ESS had only one factor for 104 medical students and for 150 patients with various sleep disorders, and the questionnaire had a high level of internal consistency as measured by Cronbach's alpha.
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