Sleep Specialty Consultation: Improving Management of Sleep Disorders

NCT00390572 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 156

Last updated 2015-04-24

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Summary

Sleep disorders are prevalent health problems that reduce quality of life, increase risks for medical disease, and enhance healthcare costs/utilization. Only a small proportion of these cases are diagnosed in primary care. Pilot data from this VA suggest that sleep disorders are not adequately managed in a primary care setting: 33% of veterans with an insomnia complaint had an undiagnosed primary sleep disorder (e.g., sleep apnea), and 50% of these patients were prescribed pharmacologic treatment for insomnia by their primary care providers.

Conditions

  • Sleep Disorders

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Sleep Specialty Consultation

The Sleep Specialty Consultation (SSC) consisted of: (1) a thorough sleep disorders evaluation accomplished via a clinician-administered structured interview designed to assess specific symptoms of global sleep disorder categories, review of a sleep history questionnaire, and review of available (CPRS) medical/psychiatric electronic records; (2) education about the specific sleep disorders diagnoses and relevant treatment recommendations provided to the patients; and (3) standardized diagnostic information and treatment recommendations provided to the participants' primary care providers.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2007-01-31
Primary Completion
2010-07-31
Completion
2010-12-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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