Sleep Aid - Epworth Sleepiness Scale

Are you suffering from sleep disoders, the resulting sleep deprivation, and dreaming to get over an illness? Longing for information about the different mechanisms of sleep, the stages of sleep and theories of why we sleep? So, you are at a right place!

Epworth Sleepiness Scale

This is a kind of sleep questionnaire, which asks you to rank whether some certain situations can make you sleepy, and, in case if the answer is “yes”, how sleepy you may become. It is applied with the aim to determine the level of a person’s daytime sleepiness. A score 10 or more is considered sleepy enough; therefore, a score of 18 or more is too much sleepy. Thus, in case if you score 10 or more on this questionnaire, then you should think over if you have enough sleep, as you may need to improve your sleep hygiene and / or visit some sleep specialist. Anyway, all these issues should better be discussed with everyone’s personal physician.

Using the below situated scale, you should choose the most appropriate number for every described situation.
0 = I would never doze or sleep;
1 = there is some slight chance of dozing or falling asleep;
2 = the chance of dozing or falling asleep is moderate;
3 = there is high chance of dozing or falling asleep.

Situation	Your Chance of Dozing of Falling Asleep
Sitting quietly and reading
Watching Television
Sitting inactive in some public place
Being a passenger of some motor vehicle for more than one hour
Sitting and talking to someone
Lying down in the afternoon
Sitting quietly after having lunch (no alcohol was consumed)
Stopped for several minutes in traffic while driving a car
Total score (the scores are to be added up). This is your Epworth score