NIET-INVASIEVE DIAGNOSTIEK VAN SLAAP(STOORNISSEN) BIJ MENSEN MET EEN VERSTANDELIJKE BEPERKING
Diagnosing sleep disorders, such as obstructive sleep apnea, can be burdensome, especially for people with intellectual disabilities. The importance of the sleep investigation and the process of applying the different sensors is more difficult to explain and understand. Challenging behavior as well as sensory processing disorders might disturb the acceptance of the sensors (and negatively influence sleep). Also, sleep investigation usually takes places in a hospital or clinical setting, which is an additional burden, because people with intellectual disabilities are taken from their own familiair environment. We investigated whether other techniques are applicable in people with intellectual disabilities. We showed that analyses of other parameters, such as heart rate and respiration, are reliable in most people with intellectual disabilities to investigate sleep and breathing difficulties during sleep. These results provide good future perspectives to make sleep investigation less burdensome. The next step in research focuses on finding a suitable wearable.
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Author: N. van den Broek, F. van Meulen, M. Ross, A. Cerny, P. Anderer, M. van Gilst, S. Pillen, S. Overeem, P. Fonseca.
Magazine: Journal of Intellectual Disability Research
Link: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jir.13060
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Diagnosing sleep disorders, such as obstructive sleep apnea, can be burdensome, especially for people with intellectual disabilities. The importance of the sleep investigation and the process of applying the different sensors is more difficult to explain and understand. Challenging behavior as well as sensory processing disorders might disturb the acceptance of the sensors (and negatively influence sleep). Also, sleep investigation usually takes places in a hospital or clinical setting, which is an additional burden, because people with intellectual disabilities are taken from their own familiair environment. We investigated whether other techniques are applicable in people with intellectual disabilities. We showed that analyses of other parameters, such as heart rate and respiration, are reliable in most people with intellectual disabilities to investigate sleep and breathing difficulties during sleep. These results provide good future perspectives to make sleep investigation less burdensome. The next step in research focuses on finding a suitable wearable.