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Sleep hygiene education for patients with obstructive sleep apnea

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Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) requires continuously wearing a mask for a long period of time, transforming the patient’s lifestyle and creating a major burden. Therefore, ensuring adherence requires an intervention that accounts for patients’ psychological factors. Interventions for CPAP patients are classified into three types based on their content and method: educational interventions, supportive interventions, and behavioral therapy. Performing these interventions either in isolation or in combination can be expected to improve CPAP adherence. Sleep hygiene education involves determining the causes of sleep disturbance, correcting mistaken sleep-related knowledge, and organizing the patient’s lifestyle habits and sleep environment to ensure good-quality sleep. Currently, CPAP adherence improvement education consists primarily of behavioral therapy. Inappropriate sleep habits observed in obstructive sleep apnea patients include lack of sleep; excessive consumption of alcohol, nicotine, and caffeine; and other habits that exacerbate the pathology of obstructive sleep apnea. Consequently, these factors merit particular attention in patient education.

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  1. Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, 1-1, Iseigaoka, Yahatanishi-ku, Kitakyushu, 807-8555, Japan

    Takuro Kitamura, Hiroki Koizumi, Shoko Takeuchi, Takahisa Tabata & Hideaki Suzuki

  2. Department of Sleep Medicine, Shiga University of Medical Science, Seta Tsukinowa-cho, Otsu, 520-2192, Japan

    Soichiro Miyazaki

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This work was supported by a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) (no. 21390461) from the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science.

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Kitamura, T., Miyazaki, S., Koizumi, H. et al. Sleep hygiene education for patients with obstructive sleep apnea. Sleep Biol. Rhythms 14 (Suppl 1), 101–106 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41105-015-0015-9

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