Travelling in Patients With Sleep Related Breathing Disorders

Wissenschaftliches Institut Bethanien e.V

Status: Completed

Conditions: Travel, Sleep Related Disorder

Treatments: Other: questionnaire for travel habits

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02636478

WI_23/2013

Details and patient eligibility

About

One questionnaire has been configured to ask therapy naive and treated patients about their travel activities. Travel activities include private and professional traveling. Another questionnaire collects medical information.

Full description

Including a German sleep committee a new questionnaire has been created to ask patients about their travel Habits. Only travels over a onenightstay were of interest. All detailed Information about the Destination has been asked. A Special Point of interest were the Impacts of traveling. For each Patient a doctor completed the medical history including sleep related breathing disorder and relevant medical conditions e.g. orthopedic Impacts.

Enrollment: 345 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 80 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• patients with sleep related breathing disorder
• informed consent provided

Exclusion criteria

• patients with no sleep related breathing disorder
• no informed consent provided

Trial design

345 participants in 2 patient groups

reference group

Description:

therapy naive patients with a sleep related breathing disorder

Treatment:

Other: questionnaire for travel habits

therapy group

Description:

patients with devices treating their sleep related breathing disorder

Treatment:

Other: questionnaire for travel habits