Name
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Label
Women's Health Initiative Insomnia Rating Scale: Trouble falling asleep
Description

Item from the Women's Health Initiative Insomnia Rating Scale. Levine et al. (2003)

Original question: The next questions ask about your sleep habits. Please choose one of the answers for each of the following questions. Pick the answer that best describes how often you experienced the situation in the past 4 weeks. 4. Did you have trouble falling asleep?

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Domain
freq4weeks
  • 1: No, not in the past 4 weeks
  • 2: Yes, less than once a week
  • 3: Yes, 1 or 2 times a week
  • 4: Yes, 3 or 4 times a week
  • 5: Yes, 5 or more times a week
Type
choices
Women's Health Initiative Insomnia Rating Scale: Trouble falling asleep vs MESA exam number
Exam 5
Total 2,237
No, not in the past 4 weeks 1,230
Yes, less than once a week 206
Yes, 1 or 2 times a week 384
Yes, 3 or 4 times a week 200
Yes, 5 or more times a week 195
Unknown 22
Women's Health Initiative Insomnia Rating Scale: Trouble falling asleep vs Participant Age at MESA Sleep Visit
Exam 5
54.0 to 62.0 years 62.0 to 69.0 years 69.0 to 77.0 years 77.0 to 95.0 years Total
Total 560 559 559 559 2,237
No, not in the past 4 weeks 295 317 310 308 1,230
Yes, less than once a week 52 57 53 44 206
Yes, 1 or 2 times a week 103 95 92 94 384
Yes, 3 or 4 times a week 50 54 46 50 200
Yes, 5 or more times a week 55 36 50 54 195
Unknown 5 - 8 9 22
Women's Health Initiative Insomnia Rating Scale: Trouble falling asleep vs Gender of the participant
Exam 5
Female Male Total
Total 1,198 1,039 2,237
No, not in the past 4 weeks 572 658 1,230
Yes, less than once a week 125 81 206
Yes, 1 or 2 times a week 240 144 384
Yes, 3 or 4 times a week 138 62 200
Yes, 5 or more times a week 113 82 195
Unknown 10 12 22
Women's Health Initiative Insomnia Rating Scale: Trouble falling asleep vs Race/ethnicity of the participant
Exam 5
White, Caucasian Chinese American Black, African-American Hispanic Total
Total 830 265 616 526 2,237
No, not in the past 4 weeks 423 162 366 279 1,230
Yes, less than once a week 111 26 28 41 206
Yes, 1 or 2 times a week 160 40 100 84 384
Yes, 3 or 4 times a week 71 13 63 53 200
Yes, 5 or more times a week 59 15 56 65 195
Unknown 6 9 3 4 22