A new German Charité Jet Lag Scale for jet lag symptoms and application

Within the context of previous studies, an English-language state-of-health questionnaire, the Columbia Jet Lag Scale, is the only sufficiently validated scale for jet lag and its symptoms. This study presents a new state-of-health questionnaire in German, one intended to achieve standardisation of surveys on jet lag.

The questionnaire was applied to define the baseline for the prevalence of jet lag symptoms based on a reference group ( n = 36). The jet lag score ascertained was subsequently applied to determine the frequency of jet lag in a group of 53 subjects. Systematic investigation of the frequency of jet lag symptoms had not been previously presented.