Epworth sleepiness scale

BossArky

Has anyone assessed themselves against the Epworth sleepiness scale before?

wiki wrote:

The questionnaire asks the subject to rate his or her probability of falling asleep on a scale of increasing probability from 0 to 3 in eight different situations. The scores for the eight questions are added to obtain a single number. A number in the range 0–9 is considered to be normal while a number in the range 10–24 is considered to indicate that specialist medical advice should be recommended

You can find some background info here.

above link wrote:

The ESS asks people to rate, on a 4-point scale (0 – 3), their usual chances of dozing off or falling asleep in 8 different situations or activities that most people engage in as part of their daily lives, although not necessarily every day. It does not ask people how often they doze off in each situation. That would depend very much on how often they happened to be in those situations. Rather it asks what the chances are that they would doze off whenever they were in each situation. This requires a mental judgment which, it seems, most people are able to make in a meaningful way. The total ESS score is the sum of 8 item-scores and can range between 0 and 24.The higher the score, the higher the person’s level of daytime sleepiness. Most people can answer the ESS, without assistance, in 2 or 3 minutes.

The test is here.


I posted this here in fitness because we go on a lot about people getting enough sleep.

kevpants

I got a 0.

The stars have to be alligned for me to fall asleep. I've never slept in an armchair, on a car journey, on a plane (even on a 14 hour flight).

spiral

I used to be you , but since the arrival of junior a year ago I can sleep anywhere, I slept at a gig in the olympia a couple of weeks ago in one of the cramped balcony seats no beer involved !