Korean J Otorhinolaryngol-Head Neck Surg.  2007 Oct;50(10):896-902.

Correlation Analysis between SF36 and Polysomnographic Measures in Patients with OSAS

• Nam WH
• Park KM
• Lim EJ
• Kim YH
• Sin CM
• Lee HW
• Kim JS

Abstract

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Despite the trend in the medical field to understand the effect of diseases on the quality of life, such a study regarding sleep apnea has not been prevailing in Korea. This study analyzed the result of a Medical Outcome Study Short Form-36 (SF-36), which is widely used to evaluate the effect of sleep apnea on patient's medical condition.
SUBJECTS AND METHOD
This study included 131 patients of over 18 years of age and who participated in the SF-36 survey and finished the polysomnography study. The relationship between parameters was conducted with Spearman, and the comparison with the independent variables was done by running a paired t-test.
RESULTS
AHI was on average 30.9+/-23.5 and BMI was on average 26+/-3.9 kg/m. Except body pain, all values which derived from the statistics of eight categories of SF-36 from the patients was significantly lower than those of the healthy control. In the comparable analysis of polysomnography and SF-36, AHI, the total sleep time, and the sleep efficacy (%) had significant correlation, but correlation coefficient was low (r<3.0).
CONCLUSION
It is recommended that the quality of life of OSAS patients should be evaluated beside PSG in order to find out the degree of seriousness of OSAS and result of treatment.

Keyword

Obstructive sleep apnea; Quality of life; Polysomnography

MeSH Terms

Humans
Korea
Outcome Assessment (Health Care)
Polysomnography
Quality of Life
Running
Sleep Apnea Syndromes
Sleep Apnea, Obstructive