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Brief title
Health condition
Sleep Apnea Syndrome
Sponsors and support
Intervention
Outcome measures
Primary outcome
Partner-ESS score versus patients ESS-score
Secondary outcome
ESS scores versus AHI scores
Background summary
Worldwide the Epworth Sleepiness Scale (ESS) is the most important questionnaire to score sleepiness. It is remarkably simple and easy to use, scoring sleepiness in 8 situations (a score of 10 or more is abnormal). The test is especially useful for diagnosis of the Obstructive Sleep Apnea syndrome (OSA).
One of the most disturbing problems with the ESS is that is a very subjective score: the patient scores his own sleepiness. Our experience in the clinic is that when we discuss the problem with the patient, the partner of the patient often disagrees and suggests that the patient is underestimating his/her sleepiness problem.
Therefore, in this study we ask partners of patients to score ESS for their partner.
Study objective
We hypothesize that partners will score ESS more severe than patients and that they have better judgment about presence and/or severity of OSA.
Study design
Primary outcome: ESS score patients and partners are retrieved the morning after PSG when the measurements have been performed. Secondary outcomes: PSG data are collected after PSG analysis, usually within 2 weeks.
Intervention
partner-ESS
Inclusion criteria
• Adult age (18 years and older)
• Referred in the period from 01.08.2020 and 01.08.2021 to the Department of Pulmonary Medicine of the Zuyderland Medical Center with suspicion of sleep apnea
• The patient and the partner must be skilled enough to complete a questionnaire written in Dutch and to understand the informed consent procedure and forms.
• The partner must share the same household as the patient
Exclusion criteria
• Patients without a partner sharing the same household
• Patients and partners who are unable to complete the Dutch questionnaire because of the language barrier.
Design
Recruitment
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In other registers
| Register | ID |
|---|---|
| NTR-new | NL9403 |
| Other | METC-Z : Not yet approved |