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KMID : 0361020070500100896
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Korean Journal of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery
2007 Volume.50 No. 10 p.896 ~ p.902
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Correlation Analysis between SF36 and Polysomnographic Measures in Patients with OSAS
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Nam Woo-Hyoung
Kim Jung-Soo
Lee Ho-Won
Park Kwang-Min
Lim Eun-Jung
Kim Yee-Hyuk
Sin Chang-Min
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Abstract
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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.
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KEYWORD
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Obstructive sleep apnea, Quality of life, Polysomnography
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