Health status in subjects with suspected obstructive sleep apnea and comparison with a general population

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to assess health status (HS) in patients with clinical suspicion of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) in order to estimate the dose response relationship between HS and OSA severity, and to compare HS in this clinical cohort with a general population sample (N = 5000). Patients referred to an overnight sleep study due to suspected OSA, whom also responded to the SF-36 questionnaire, were included (N = 418). Of these, 194 showed normal findings, while 111, 60 and 53 demonstrated mild, moderate and severe OSA, respectively. Mean age was 47.5 (SD 11.9) and 69% were males. Only the mental health scale (p = 0.015) and mental component summary score (p = 0.023) were associated with OSA severity. This association, however, disappeared in multivariable analysis. All SF-36 scores in the sleep study group were lower than that of the general population sample, in both unadjusted and multivariable linear regression analysis. In this study, there was a lack of association between OSA severity and general HS. However, as a whole, patients in this clinical population referred to an overnight sleep study due to suspected OSA had impaired HS on all scales compared to a general population, with greatest differences in the vitality domain.

Turkish reliability and validity study of the medical outcomes study (MOS) sleep scale in patients with obstructive sleep apnea

“…It was also determined that this relation was negative with SF-36 sub-dimensions, and positive with other scales. These findings are consistent with the results of the previous studies reporting that sleep problems of the OSAS patients affect mental and social functioning as well as physical health in a negative way [35][36][37][38][39]. It was considered that there is an agreement between the MOS sleep scale result and the scales that were applied simultaneously.…”

“…In previous years, the relations between OSAS and neuropsychological and functional deficiencies including daytime sleepiness, impaired sleep quality, fatigue, anxiety, depression and reduced quality of life have been shown [34,35]. For this reason, the MOS-sleep scale and PSQI, CIS, BDI, BAI, ESS, SHI and SF-36 scales were applied simultaneously.…”

OSA in patients with head and neck cancer is associated with cancer size and oncologic outcome

“…This is in line with other studies concerning the EORTC QLQ c30 questionnaire, although the reported absolute numbers are higher in this study [29,30]. Regarding SF 36 similar results have been reported for a general OSA population [31].…”

Effectiveness of nasal continuous airway pressure therapy in patients with obstructive sleep apnea

“…Nasal CPAP improves the QoL in OSA patients, including an improvement in depression . Most of these studies demonstrated the clinical effectiveness of nCPAP in terms of EDS, QOL and cardiovascular complications .…”

“…Nasal CPAP improves the QoL in OSA patients, including an improvement in depression. 23 Most of these studies demonstrated the clinical effectiveness of nCPAP in terms of EDS, QOL and cardiovascular complications. 24 Nasal CPAP treatment has supported significant improvement in the depressive symptoms of OSA patients due to its reduction of daytime sleepiness.…”