TY  - JOUR
EP  - 677
JF  - Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery
AV  - public
ID  - discovery10205628
SN  - 0194-5998
N1  - This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher?s terms and conditions.
VL  - 172
N2  - OBJECTIVE: To develop and validate a patient-reported outcome measure (PROM) to evaluate the quality of life (QoL) among patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). STUDY DESIGN: A prospective cohort study. SETTINGS: Tertiary referral center. METHODS: We developed a 15-item English questionnaire that was administered to 176 adults with OSA and 22 adult controls without symptoms of OSA in a tertiary sleep surgery clinic between June 2021 and December 2021. The internal consistency and test-retest reliability were measured using the Cronbach's ? and the intraclass correlation coefficient, respectively. The 2-sample Wilcoxon rank-sum (Mann-Whitney) test was applied to compare the 2 groups. Convergent validity of the test scores of the questionnaire was compared to previously validated outcome measures and objective sleep study outcomes using the Spearman correlation coefficient. RESULTS: Of the 198 respondents (176 cases and 22 controls); 71% were men and 29% were women. The internal consistency was excellent with the ? of?.92 (lower 95% confidence limit of 0.90). All the test-retest correlations were positive, significant, and strong ranging from 0.50 to 0.90. The differences between cases and controls were statistically significant for all the items and for the total score. The total score of the questionnaire with the Epworth Sleepiness Scale and objective OSA measures was moderate to strong. CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE: The new tool provides a validated PROM to evaluate the QoL among OSA patients specifically, with excellent internal consistency, reasonable test-retest reliability, discriminant validity, and construct validity. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: Level 4.
TI  - Standardized List Evaluating Apnea (SLEAP): A Comprehensive Survey to Define the Quality of Life in OSA
KW  - obstructive sleep apnea
KW  -  patient?reported outcome measure
KW  -  quality of life
KW  -  sleep surgery
KW  -  World Health Organization
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1002/ohn.1072
SP  - 668
A1  - Abdelwahab, Mohamed
A1  - Saltychev, Mikhail
A1  - Lechner, Matt
A1  - Adibi, Elahe
A1  - Wadsworth, Elizabeth Walker
A1  - Fleury, Thomaz
A1  - Rakha, Abdelwahab
A1  - Khafagy, Yasser
A1  - Abdelfattah, Ahmed
A1  - Al-Sayed, Ahmed A
A1  - Chou, Courtney
A1  - Ali, Ban
A1  - Liu, Stanley
A1  - Kushida, Clete
A1  - Capasso, Robson
Y1  - 2025/02//
PB  - SAGE Publications
IS  - 2
ER  -