NCT04563169

Video Consultation in CPAP for Patients With Obstructive Sleep Apnea

Video Consultation as an Adequate Alternative to Face-to-face Consultations in CPAP Use for Patients With Obstructive Sleep Apnea: Randomized Controlled Trial.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 140 (actual)
• Sponsor: Rijnstate Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The objective of this study is to evaluate the effects of video consultation versus face-to-face consultation for patients with obstructive sleep apnea on patients' CPAP use (minutes/per night), self-efficacy, risk outcomes, outcome expectancies, experiences with technology and, patients' and nurses' satisfaction.

Detailed description

The objective of this study is to evaluate the effects of video consultation versus face-to-face consultation for patients with obstructive sleep apnea on patients' CPAP use (minutes/per night), self-efficacy, risk outcomes, outcome expectancies, experiences with technology and, patients' and nurses' satisfaction. This study is a non-blinded randomized controlled trial with an intervention group (video consultations) and a usual care group (face-to-face consultations), with assessements after 1, 2, 3, 4, 12 and 24 weeks. Patients were recruited from a large teaching hospital (Rijnstate, hospital), and included from January 2, 2019 until June 26, 2019.In total, 140 patients were randomized, (1:1 allocation).

Conditions

• Obstructive Sleep Apnea

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Video consultation	The first video consultation with a nurse was planned one week after start with CPAP. Three focus points were discussed during the consultations: 1) adherence (\>6 hours per night); 2) rest AHI \< 5 (or \<10 if age \>70), and 3) (improvements in) complaints. If these objectives were achieved after one week, a new consultation was planned three weeks later (four weeks after start). As long as these objectives were not achieved, video consultations were planned weekly (until after four weeks).

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-01-02
• Primary completion: 2019-12-09
• Completion: 2019-12-09
• First posted: 2020-09-24
• Last updated: 2020-09-24

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Netherlands