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J Korean Sleep Res Soc. 2008;5(2):89-93.         doi: https://doi.org/10.13078/jksrs.08015
폐쇄성 수면 무호흡증 환자에서 수면 설문지와 호흡곤란지수의 상관성에 대한 비교 연구
박상준, 박기형, 신동진, 박현미, 이영배, 성영희
가천의과대학교 길병원 신경과학교실
 
Comparing Sleep Questionnaires and Respiratory Disturbance Index in Obstructive Sleep Apnea syndrome patients
Sang-Jun Park, Kee-Hyung Park, Dong-Jin Shin, Hyeon-Mi Park, Yeong-Bae Lee, Young-Hui Sung
Department of Neurology, Gil Medical Center, Gachon University of Medicine and Science, Incheon, Korea
Corresponding Author: Kee-Hyung Park ,Tel: +82-32-460-3346, Fax: +82-32-460-3344, Email: ghpark@gilhospital.com
Received: December 13, 2008   Accepted: December 25, 2008   Published online: December 31, 2008
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ABSTRACT
Background : The obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) syndrome is a potentially disabling condition characterized by excessive daytime sleepiness, disruptive snoring, frequent arousals and nocturnal hypoxemia. Self-reported sleep scales and questionnaires are easy to perform and useful method to evaluate the OSA patients. Each sleep scale and questionnaires are reported as a good screening tool for detection of OSA before polysomnographic evaluation. But there were no report about correlation between sleep scale and severity of OSA patients. We studied each sleep scales and questionnaires to confirm the correlation between each sleep questionnaire and the severity of OSA patients.
Methods : Retrospectively consecutive 147 patients who carried out overnight polysomnogram from January 2005 to June 2007 were enrolled. All of the patients data were reviewed their sleep questionnaires which had done before polysomnographic evaluation. Sleep questionnaires were consisted of Epworth Sleepiness Scale (ESS), Stanford Sleepiness Scale (SSS), Insomnia Severity Index (ISI), Berlin questionnaire, Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) and Beck Depression Index (BDI). OSA patients were divided into 3 groups according to severity by their respiratory disturbance index (RDI) score.
Results : The OSA patients divided into normal, mild, moderate, severe group by their RDI score; Among sleep questionnaires, Berlin questionnaire and BDI had significantly correlated to OSA severity (P<0.05). Between them, Berlin questionnaire showed most positive correlation to OSA severity by RDI score (P<0.005).
Conclusions : Our results revealed that Berlin questionnaire is a most significant scale for prediction of severity of OSA.
Keywords: Obstructive sleep apnea | Respiratory disturbance index | Sleep questionnaire
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