Screening of Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome in Residents of a Unit of Long-term Care Under Mixed Food

Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Saint Etienne

Status: Terminated

Conditions: Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome

Treatments: Other: autonomy scale (ADL and AGGIR); Device: RU sleeping®; Other: various activity scale (IADL)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02839499

1608080

2016-A01066-45 (Other Identifier)

Details and patient eligibility

About

Obstructive sleep apnea is a condition that affects 40% to 62% of the population aged over 60 years with major consequences especially on the cardiovascular system.

This syndrome consists of a staff of the pharyngeal muscles. These muscles are also involved in swallowing phenomena and chews, or many elderly patients are subjected to a mixed diet, logically leading to atrophy of the muscles aerodigestive crossroads.

Muscle wasting ENT induced a mixed food could promote collapsibility of VAS, exposing the individual to a higher risk of apnea and hypopnea during sleep.

The objective of this study is to determine if there is a significant increase in the prevalence of obstructive sleep apnea syndrome in the elderly patients residing in long term care units, receiving a mixed food compared to residents in supply to normal texture.

Enrollment: 39 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 70+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Resident of a unit of long-term care
• Recipient or affiliated with Social Security
• Signature of consent by the patient, guardian or person of trust

and mixed food or normal texture food

Exclusion criteria

• OSA diagnosed and treated earlier
• Patients with an abnormal upper airway out edentation
• Patients unable to give informed consent and having no confidence in individual capacity to do so.
• Patients with a gastrostomy or jejunostomy

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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39 participants in 2 patient groups

mixed food

Experimental group

Description:

experimental group with RU sleeping®, autonomy scale (ADL and AGGIR) and various activity scale (IADL)

Treatment:

Other: various activity scale (IADL)

Device: RU sleeping®

Other: autonomy scale (ADL and AGGIR)

normal texture food

Other group

Description:

control group with RU sleeping®, autonomy scale (ADL and AGGIR) and various activity scale (IADL)

Treatment:

Other: various activity scale (IADL)

Device: RU sleeping®

Other: autonomy scale (ADL and AGGIR)