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BEARS Sleep Screening Tool

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STOP, THAT and One Hundred Other Sleep Scales

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The BEARS is a quick 5-item screening tool to be used with children in a primary care setting. In order to make the instrument “user-friendly” for families and easy to remember for clinicians, each letter of the test’s acronym represents one of the five items for query: Bedtime issues, Excessive daytime sleepiness, night Awakenings, Regularity and duration of sleep, and Snoring. Parents are asked about possible problems in each domain: a “yes” response prompts physicians to solicit further information (e.g., frequency and nature of problem).

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  1. University of Toronto The Youthdale Child and Adolescent Sleep Centre, 227 Victoria Street, M5B 1T8, Toronto, Canada

    Azmeh Shahid M.D & Kate Wilkinson Ph.D

  2. University of Toronto The Youthdale Child and Adolescent Sleep Centre, 227 Victoria Street, Toronto, Canada

    Shai Marcu M.D

  3. Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto The Youthdale Child and Adolescent Sleep Centre, 227 Victoria Street, M5B 1T8, Toronto, Canada

    Colin M. Shapiro MBChB., Ph.D., MRCPsych, FRCP(C)

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  1. University of Toronto, Psychiatry, Youthdale Child and Adolescent Sleep Cen, Victoria Street 227, Toronto, M5B 1TB, Canada

    Azmeh Shahid

  2. Youthdale Child and Adolescent Sleep Cen, University of Toronto, Victoria Street 227, Toronto, M5B 1TB, Canada

    Kate Wilkinson

  3. The Youthdale Child and Adolescent Sleep, University of Toronto, Victoria Street 227, Toronto, Canada

    Shai Marcu

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    Colin M Shapiro

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Shahid, A., Wilkinson, K., Marcu, S., Shapiro, C.M. (2011). BEARS Sleep Screening Tool. In: Shahid, A., Wilkinson, K., Marcu, S., Shapiro, C. (eds) STOP, THAT and One Hundred Other Sleep Scales. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9893-4_7

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