Validation of the Turkish Version of the Rapid Eye Movement Sleep Behavior Disorder Questionnaire
Table 3
Sensitivity and specificity of the Turkish version of the rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder questionnaire items.
RBDSQ-T item
Sensitivity (%)
Specificity (%)
Positive predictive value (%)
Negative predictive value (%)
Controls
OSAS patients
Controls
OSAS patients
Controls
OSAS patients
Controls
OSAS patients
() I sometimes have very vivid dreams.
100
100
21.79
25
21.79
44.74
100
100
() My dreams frequently have an aggressive or action-packed content.
88.24
88.24
87.18
82.14
60
75
97.14
92
() The dream contents mostly match my nocturnal behavior.
88.24
88.24
83.33
82.14
53.57
75
97.01
92
() I know that my arms or legs move when I sleep.
29.41
29.41
78.21
46.43
22.73
25
83.56
52
() It thereby happened that I (almost) hurt my bed partner or myself.
94.12
94.12
97.44
85.71
88.89
80
98.7
96
() I have or had the following phenomena during my dreams:
() Speaking, shouting, swearing, laughing loudly.
82.35
82.35
67.95
75
35.9
66.67
94.64
87.5
(6.2) Sudden limb movements, “fights.”
82.35
82.35
88.46
75
60.87
66.67
95.83
87.5
(6.3) Gestures, complex movements, that are useless during sleep, for example, to wave, to salute, to frighten mosquitoes, falls off the bed.
88.24
88.24
87.18
85.71
60
78.95
97.14
92.31
(6.4) Things that fell down around the bed, for example, bedside lamp, book, glasses…and so forth.
47.06
47.06
92.31
89.29
57.14
72.73
88.89
73.53
(7) It happens that my movements awake me.
64.71
64.71
94.87
78.57
73.33
64.71
92.5
78.57
() After awakening I mostly remember the content of my dreams well.
100
100
87.18
35.71
62.96
48.57
100
100
() My sleep is frequently disturbed.
41.18
41.18
34.62
64.29
12.07
41.18
72.97
64.29
() I have/had a disease of the nervous system (stroke, head trauma, parkinsonism, RLS, narcolepsy, depression, epilepsy, inflammatory disease of the brain), which?
