Travelling in Patients With Sleep Related Breathing Disorders

• Sponsor: Wissenschaftliches Institut Bethanien e.V (Other)
• Overall Status: Completed
• CT.gov ID: NCT02636478
• Collaborator: (none)
• Enrollment: 345
• Duration (Months): 12

Study Details

Study Description

Brief Summary

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.

Condition or Disease	Intervention/Treatment	Phase
Travel, Sleep Related Disorder	Other: questionnaire for travel habits

Detailed 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.

Study Design

• Study Type: Observational
• Actual Enrollment: 345 participants
• Time Perspective: Prospective
• Official Title: Travel Activities in Patients With Sleep Related Breathing Disorders
• Study Start Date: Apr 1, 2013
• Actual Primary Completion Date: Apr 1, 2014
• Actual Study Completion Date: Apr 1, 2014

Arms and Interventions

Arm	Intervention/Treatment
reference group therapy naive patients with a sleep related breathing disorder	Other: questionnaire for travel habits; questionnaire has been used to collect information about travelling
therapy group patients with devices treating their sleep related breathing disorder	Other: questionnaire for travel habits; questionnaire has been used to collect information about travelling

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcome Measures

1. travel activities in sleep related breathing disorder, questionnaire [ten minutes]

   questionnaire has been used once in each patient

Eligibility Criteria

Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 Years to 80 Years
• Sexes Eligible for Study: All
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Inclusion Criteria:

• patients with sleep related breathing disorder

• informed consent provided

Exclusion Criteria:

• patients with no sleep related breathing disorder

• no informed consent provided

Contacts and Locations

Locations

No locations specified.

Sponsors and Collaborators

• Wissenschaftliches Institut Bethanien e.V

Investigators

None specified.

Study Documents (Full-Text)

None provided.

More Information

Publications

• Quera Salva MA, Barbot F, Hartley S, Sauvagnac R, Vaugier I, Lofaso F, Philip P. Sleep disorders, sleepiness, and near-miss accidents among long-distance highway drivers in the summertime. Sleep Med. 2014 Jan;15(1):23-6. doi: 10.1016/j.sleep.2013.06.018. Epub 2013 Sep 14.
• Sinagawa DM, De Carvalho HB, Andreuccetti G, Do Prado NV, De Oliveira KC, Yonamine M, Muñoz DR, Gjerde H, Leyton V. Association between travel length and drug use among Brazilian truck drivers. Traffic Inj Prev. 2015;16(1):5-9. doi: 10.1080/15389588.2014.906589. Epub 2014 Sep 26.

• Responsible Party: Wissenschaftliches Institut Bethanien e.V
• ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT02636478
• Other Study ID Numbers: WI_23/2013
• First Posted: Dec 21, 2015
• Last Update Posted: Dec 21, 2015
• Last Verified: Dec 1, 2015

• Additional relevant MeSH terms: Disease

Study Results

No Results Posted as of Dec 21, 2015