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Difficulty getting to sleep and staying asleep are insomnia symptoms. Take this Insomnia Severity Index quiz to help determine your sleeping pattern. You will learn whether your sleep issue is mild, moderate, or severe. This index provides a rating scale from 0 (no problem) to 4 (very severe) for each sleep problem. For every problem, rate the severity for the past two weeks.
#1 Do you have difficulty falling asleep?
• NO 0
• RARELY 1
• A LITTLE 2
• OFTEN 3
• VERY OFTEN 4
#2 Do you have difficulty staying asleep?
• NO 0
• RARELY 1
• A LITTLE 2
• OFTEN 3
• VERY OFTEN 4
#3 Do you wake up too early?
• NO 0
• RARELY 1
• A LITTLE 2
• OFTEN 3
• VERY OFTEN 4
#4 How satisfied/dissatisfied are you with your current sleep pattern?
• VERY SATISFIED 0
• SATISFIED 1
• MODERATELY SATISFIED 2
• DISSATISFIED 3
#5 How noticeable to others do you think your sleep problem is in terms of impairing the quality of your life?
• NOT AT ALL 0
• A LITTLE 1
• SOMEWHAT 2
• MUCH 3
• VERY NOTICEABLE 4
#6 How worried or distressed are you about your sleep problem?
• NOT AT ALL WORRIED 0
• A LITTLE 1
• SOMEWHAT 2
• MUCH 3
• VERY WORRIED 4
#7 To what extent do you consider your sleep problem to interfere with your daily functioning (daytime fatigue, mood, concentration)?
• NOT AT ALL INTERFERING 0
• A LITTLE 1
• SOMEWHAT 2
• MUCH 3
• VERY MUCH INTERFERING 4
Your score – Add the scores from your answers to the 7 questions
0–7 No clinically significant insomnia
8–14 Sub-threshold insomnia
15–21 Clinical insomnia (moderate severity)
22–28 Clinical insomnia (severe)
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