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Sleepiness and Tiredness Among Doctors Working in A Tertiary Hospital

NCT04020991 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 203

Last updated 2019-07-16

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Sleep disorders are important health issues that can reduced ones quality of life by affecting their performance and productivity in a negative way. People who work in shifts or doing 24 hours call usually have irregular sleep patterns and often complaint of fatigue and daytime sleepiness. This will jeopardized our attention, concentration ability and memory which may lead to serious job accidents. This study is to screen for obstructive sleep apnea among doctors working in a tertiary hospital and to determine the predictors of OSAS and tiredness among doctors who frequently work night shifts or 24 hour call.

What would this involve? Participant will be required fill up demographic data and answer the STOP-Bang and Epworth sleepiness scale questionnaires. After that participant will need to wear a wrist watch pulse oximeter just before going to sleep at night until the next morning (minimum of 6 hours of sleep required). The wrist watch will then be returned to researcher the following day for data analysis purpose.

The benefits We hope to screen and identify those who are at risk of having obstructive sleep apnea and start early treatment among doctor who often have irregular sleep patterns and insufficient sleep due to the nature and timing of their work.

Conditions

Interventions

DIAGNOSTIC_TEST

Sleep Study

Participants who noted to have Oxygen Desaturation Index more than 10 (moderate to severe OSA) will be referred to do formal sleep study and referral to Sleep Medicine Clinic

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Malaya

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Chew Yin Wang, MBChB · University of Malaya

Eligibility

Min Age
20 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-10-01
Primary Completion
2019-06-30
Completion
2019-07-11

Countries

  • Malaysia

Study Locations

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