Helping Clinicians Conceptualise Behavioural Insomnia in Children: Development of the Manifestations and Vulnerabilities of Behavioural Insomnia in Childhood Scale (MAVBICS)

Child Psychiatry Hum Dev. 2023 Oct 5. doi: 10.1007/s10578-023-01606-w. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThis paper outlines the development and psychometric evaluation of the Manifestations and Vulnerabilities of Behavioural Insomnia in Childhood Scale (MAVBICS), an instrument intended to assess the manifestations of, and factors underpinning, child behavioural insomnia. The MAVBICS comprises two sections: a more general sleep and bedtime information section (Section 1), and a psychometric measure of six theoretically derived factors that underlie, contribute to, and are manifestations of, child sleep problems (Section 2), that is the focus of this research. Study 1 comprised an exploratory factor analysis of Section 2 items (EFA; n = 328 parents of children aged 3-12 years), with a final 25 items found to load highly onto 6 factors; Sleep Maintenance Problems (4 items, α = 0.88), Co-Sleeping Behaviours (4 items, α = 0.93), Bedtime Routines (5 items, α = 0.82), Bedtime Resistance (5 items, α = 0.88), Bedtime Worries (3 items, α = 0.85) and Bedtime Fears (4 items, α = 0.86). Study 2 comprised a confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) of Section 2 items and tests of convergent validity (n = 313), with results confirming the factor structure and providing evidence for convergent validity through correlations in expected directions between MAVBICS scores and other sleep, anxiety and behaviour measures. Study 3 tested the test-retest reliability of Section 2 items (n = 53), and foun...
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