NCT02016339

Intensive Versus Standard Follow up to Improve Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) Compliance

Intensive Versus Standard Follow up to Improve Continuous Positive Airway Pressure Compliance: The Greek Experience

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 2,836 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Crete · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study was to compare the effects on sleepiness, quality of life, depression, hospitalization and deaths rate, of intensive vs standard interventions, on CPAP adherence, 2 years after CPAP initiation.

Detailed description

There is limited data concerning long-term randomized clinical trials proving the long-term efficacy of intensive use, follow programs on improving CPAP use. Therefore the investigators aimed to compare the effects on sleepiness, quality of life, depression, hospitalization and deaths rate, of intensive vs standard interventions, on CPAP adherence, 2 years after CPAP initiation.

Conditions

• Sleep Apnea

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Standard care	24-h consultation telephone line to the sleep nurses to answer questions regarding CPAP usage. Patients were reviewed at 1 month and at 3 month intervals during the first year and every 6 months thereafter in the CPAP clinic by the nurse. Additional visits or phone calls by sleep specialist if doubts about a patient's compliance or willingness to continue with the therapy.
BEHAVIORAL	Intensive care	Standard group care plus: Involvement of the patient's partner or family necessary. Extra education on sleep apnea and CPAP by sleep specialists via a 15-min videotape. 10- to 15-min lecture from the sleep clinic's nurses after CPAP titration study. Phone calls by nurses at 2 and 7 days. Early review of patients by sleep specialists at 15 and 30 days. Home visits by sleep nurses, if there doubts about a patients adherence

Timeline

• Start date: 2007-06-01
• Primary completion: 2013-06-01
• Completion: 2013-10-01
• First posted: 2013-12-20
• Last updated: 2013-12-23