The investigators found that improvements in sleepiness and quality of life were the same.
The AHI, the "gold standard" of obstructive sleep apnea severity, was not significantly correlated with symptoms of daytime sleepiness, sleep quality, depression, or anxiety.
This potential utility of even partial adherence to PAP therapy mirrors adult findings, in which improved sleepiness and quality of life have been observed in groups in which PAP use averages around 50% of each night [4], [8].
Physical health and mental health summary scores; Depression; Anxiety; Stress; Daytime sleepiness; Sleep quality; Symptom count and symptom bother count.
Adults with rhinitis have a higher prevalence of OSA, and those with rhinitis and OSA have more daytime sleepiness and lower quality of life according to the Epworth sleepiness scale and the Rhinosinusitis Quality of Life Questionnaire.
The self-rated sleep questionaire, OSA, includes five factors of subjective sleep quality: sleepiness, sleep maintenance, worry, integrated sleep feeling and sleep initiation.
Patients with postural tachycardia syndrome (POTS) commonly complain of fatigue, unrefreshing sleep, daytime sleepiness and diminished quality of life.
Daytime sleepiness, nighttime sleep quality, stressful life events, and HIV-related fatigue.
STUDY OBJECTIVES: To evaluate 6 months' eszopiclone treatment upon patient-reported sleep, fatigue and sleepiness, insomnia severity, quality of life, and work limitations.
In this report, the authors describe the relationships between daytime sleepiness, nighttime sleep quality, stressful life events, and HIV-related fatigue in a sample of 128 individuals; they report the baseline results of a longitudinal observational study.
