oticeably better sleep quality is objectively definable: How much steadier and deeper must sleepers breath?

Conditions: G47.31

Registration Number: DRKS00017471

Lead Sponsor: medscoops - Health Sciences

Brief Summary: Not available

Detailed Description: Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status: Recruiting stopped after recruiting started

Sex: All

Target Recruitment: 0

Inclusion Criteria

• Body mass index below 35 kg/m²
• Obstructive sleep apnoea
.. • diagnosed for the first time at T1 at the Sleep Medicine Centre of the Otorhinolaryngology Department of the Mainz University Medical Centre
.. • still untreated at T1
• Consent into an auto-titrating ventilation as part of the routine therapy
• Written informed consent into study participation including
.. • three interviews of 10 minutes each (see Primary Outcome”)
.. • pseudonymised data electronic storage and validation of personal data

Exclusion Criteria

• Actual known pregnancy, known cardiac insufficiency, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease stadium III or higher according to GOLD, psychiatric, neurologic or neurodegenerative diseases, narcolepsy or restless-legs syndrome
• Status after apoplexy, myocardial infarction or malign neoplasm
• Further disease that influence the apnoea-hypopnoea-index (predictor) and the sleepiness during the day
• Neuroleptics, antiepileptic drugs, antidepressants, sedatives and further substances that influence the apnoea-hypopnoea-index (predictor) and the sleepiness during the day

Study & Design

Study Type: observational

Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Subjective appraisal at T1, T2, and T3 of the impairment caused by the obstructive sleep apnea; the four categories are irrelevant, mild, middle, and severe.

Secondary Outcome Measures