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BRIEF RESEARCH REPORT article

Front. Child Adolesc. Psychiatry

Sec. Interventions for Adolescent Mental Health

Volume 4 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/frcha.2025.1644128

Development and field test of the Child and Adolescent Sleep Checklist for parents of community junior high school students

Provisionally accepted
Kentaro  KawabeKentaro Kawabe1Saori  InoueSaori Inoue2Yu  MatsumotoYu Matsumoto2Maya  KusunokiMaya Kusunoki2Shu-ichi  UenoShu-ichi Ueno2Yasunori  OkaYasunori Oka2Fumie  HoriuchiFumie Horiuchi1*
  • 1Department of Child Psychiatry, Graduate School of Medicine, Ehime University, Toon, Japan
  • 2Ehime Daigaku Daigakuin Igakukei Kenkyuka Igakubu, Toon, Japan

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Aim: Children and adolescents get fewer than the recommended hours of sleep. The Child and Adolescent Sleep Checklist for parents (CASC-P) was designed to identify sleep habits and screen for sleep problems in junior high school students in Japan. This study aimed to validate the Japanese version of the CASC-P for junior high school students and determine its internal consistency.We used confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and Cronbach's α to validate the scale and examine reliability. The analysis involved 218 parents of students aged 12 to 15 years.Results: Cronbach's α for the overall scale was 0.771. The prevalence of sleep problems was 15.6%. Factorial construct validity was assessed using the four-factor model used in the original CASC-P. Almost all items loaded meaningfully on their designated factors, and standardized factor-loading values ranged from 0.278 to 0.878 (except for items 1, 2, 9, 16, and 21).The CASC-P is a suitable questionnaire for assessing parents' perspectives on adolescent sleep behavior.

Keywords: 791-0295, Shitsukawa 454, Toon city, Ehime, Japan sleep disorders, sleep checklist, Sleep questionnaire, early adolescents

Received: 09 Jun 2025; Accepted: 28 Jul 2025.

Copyright: © 2025 Kawabe, Inoue, Matsumoto, Kusunoki, Ueno, Oka and Horiuchi. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

* Correspondence: Fumie Horiuchi, Department of Child Psychiatry, Graduate School of Medicine, Ehime University, Toon, Japan

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