PROMIS Sleep-Related Impairment
What It Measures
The PROMIS Sleep-Related Impairment is a standardized self-report instrument developed under the National Institutes of Health (NIH) PROMIS initiative to evaluate perceived alertness, sleepiness, and tiredness during usual waking hours, along with the daytime functional impairments associated with poor sleep or impaired alertness. It does not assess the sleep period itself; a separate PROMIS measure, Sleep Disturbance, covers sleep quality and difficulty falling or staying asleep.
Drawn from a 16-item bank, the measure is administered as a fixed 4 or 8 question short form or as a computer adaptive test (CAT), which selects each subsequent item based on prior responses. Items carry a seven-day recall window, and raw scores convert to a population-normed T-score centered at 50, where higher scores indicate greater impairment.
PROMIS Global Health-10 is officially listed in the HealthMeasures library as the PROMIS Short Form v1.0 – Sleep-Related Impairments 4a (8a version is also available)
Additional Notes
Learn More: Read our overview on PROMIS Measures for Clinicians.
Licensing Notes: PROMIS® is a registered trademark of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. PROMIS instruments are publicly available through HealthMeasures without licensing or royalty fees for individual clinical and educational use. However, integrating these tools into an electronic platform or EHR requires HealthMeasures Electronic Administration Permission (HEAP) to ensure digital formatting and scoring validity.
