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Published Dec. 6, 2019
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Mark Aloia
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PHILLIPS HEALTHCARE
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Dr Aloia has a disclosed conflict in that he is (b)(4) employed by Phillips Healthcare as Sr. Director, Global Clinical Research, Office of Medical and Health Affairs. Whereas Philips Healthcare manufactures and sells oxygen delivery system devices for patients and CPAP devices, Dr. Aloia and his company may indirectly benefit from the outcome of studies that may influence the use of these products
Tailored Treatment to Enhance Risk Perception in Sleep Apnea
Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) is a medical disorder with medical and psychological consequences. The disorder affects approximately 6% of Americans. OSA occurs when the throat closes during sleep, cutting off the airway and causing the patient to stop breathing and, often, to lose oxygen to their vital organs. The treatment for OSA is Positive Airway Pressure therapy (PAP), which blows air into the nose and mouth creating a mechanism to keep the airway open during sleep. Given the seriousness of the disorder, one would think that patients who are diagnosed with OSA would use PAP therapy regularly. In fact, adherence to PAP therapy is as poor as adherence to almost any medical treatment. After working with many patients in our PAP therapy adherence research, we believe that a critical piece to poor PAP adherence is that patients experience OSA while they are asleep and never see the seriousness of their own breathing disorder. This results in a poor perception of the risks of the disorder. Our goal in this proposal is to enhance risk perception by showing patients a video of themselves having a breathing problem during sleep. This video is obtained as a normal part of the patient's sleep study and we have condensed the video to allow patients to see themselves struggling and also to see the benefits of PAP therapy. We demonstrated, through a brief pilot trial, that patients who see themselves having breathing problems during sleep take their disorder very seriously and subsequently use PAP therapy much more than patients who simply see an educational PAP video. This risk perception intervention could have profound effects on the lives of these patients and could easily be incorporated into the clinical care of patients as the videos already exist and the intervention only takes 30 minutes to deliver. We propose a test of the personalized video against a non-personalized video and treatment as usual. We hypothesize that the brief personalized video will improve adherence and outcomes associated with apnea as well as enhancing the perception of risk.
Filed on June 25, 2014.
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