关于阻塞性睡眠呼吸暂停的认识和知识来源:一个横截面调查研究
Maria Lavinia Bartolucci1, Serena Incerti Parenti1, Francesco Bortolotti1
1Unit of Orthodontics and Sleep Dentistry, Department of Biomedical and Neuromotor Sciences (DIBINEM), University of Bologna, Via San Vitale 59, 40125 Bologna, Italy.
Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland)
|December 8, 2023
概括
阻塞性睡眠呼吸暂停 (OSA) 意识在患者之间有所不同,教育水平影响知识. 改善OSA信息和沟通对于更好地了解和管理患者至关重要.
科学领域:
- 睡眠医学 睡眠医学
- 呼吸系统医学 呼吸系统医学
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
背景情况:
- 阻塞性睡眠呼吸暂停 (OSA) 影响全球10亿人,严重影响生活质量.
- 由于公众和医疗专业人员的认识不足,大量的OSA病例仍未被诊断出来.
- 由于缺乏关于其健康后果的准确信息,患者可能不会优先考虑OSA评估.
研究的目的:
- 评估被诊断患者对阻塞性睡眠呼吸暂停 (OSA) 的知识水平.
- 确定患者使用的主要信息来源来了解他们的OSA状况.
- 探索OSA知识,教育和患者参与之间的关系.
主要方法:
- 对92名被诊断患有OSA的患者进行了一项调查,这些患者被转移到博洛尼亚大学牙科睡眠医学部门.
- 调查问卷收集了关于社会人口统计特征,OSA的一般知识及其相关医疗风险的数据.
- 进行了统计分析,以确定知识水平和教育背景之间的相关性.
主要成果:
- 大约67.38%的受访患者表现出对OSA有广泛的了解.
- 然而,显著的20.65%的参与者表现出对自身状况的认识不足.
- 在高等教育水平和更大的OSA知识之间发现了统计学上显著的相关性 (p = 0.002).
结论:
- 患者对阻塞性睡眠呼吸暂停 (OSA) 的知识是可变的,受教育程度的重大影响.
- 显然需要提高对OSA患者的质量和信息的提供.
- 改进的沟通策略对于培养足够的患者意识和促进OSA的及时医疗护理至关重要.
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