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Sleep disorders, if untreated, increase the risk for the development of obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and depression and negatively impact the course and treatment of these chronic conditions once developed.1-4 With the prevalence of sleep disorders at 10–40% in the general population,5 the detection and treatment of sleep disorders is important for the maintenance of wellness and may serve as a means to reduce the onset and burden of chronic diseases and the overall cost of health care. As important as this opportunity for prophylaxis may be, most medical providers do not inquire about their patients’ sleep quality or quantity. This may be due, in part, to a lack of training and expertise regarding the assessment and treatment of sleep disorders. This may also be due to the understandable constraints on providers’ time in primary care settings. Time constraints could be overcome, however, if a brief, comprehensive and psychometrically sound sleep disorders screening questionnaire were available. If this were the case, then it might be possible to put the assessment of sleep disorders into regular practice in a manner that is akin to what has occurred with depression in the last decade. That is, with the advent of brief screeners for depression, e.g., the nine-item Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9),6,7 it became possible to assess for depression in the primary care setting. In the case of sleep disorders, the screening process is complicated by the fact that not one, Received: February 18, 2017 Revised: April 27, 2017 Accepted: May 17, 2017

Introducing the Sleep Disorders Symptom Checklist-25: A Primary Care Friendly and Comprehensive Screener for Sleep Disorders