Impact of the novel coronavirus disease on treatment adherence and sleep duration in patients with obstructive sleep apnea treated with positive airway pressure

  1. Salma Batool-Anwar
  2. Olabimpe S. Omobomi
  3. Stuart F. Quan

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  1. Version published to 10.5664/jcsm.8746
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    Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.

    Table 1: Rigor

    Institutional Review Board StatementIRB: The study was approved by the Institutional Review Board at Brigham Health.
    Randomizationnot detected.
    Blindingnot detected.
    Power Analysisnot detected.
    Sex as a biological variablenot detected.

    Table 2: Resources

    Software and Algorithms
    SentencesResources
    Statistics: All statistical analyses were done using STATA version 11 (StataCorp, LLC, College Station, TX, USA).
    STATA
    suggested: (Stata, RRID:SCR_012763)
    StataCorp
    suggested: (Stata, RRID:SCR_012763)

    Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).

    Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
    However, we acknowledge some limitations. First, we reviewed medical records of patients seen in the sleep clinic and did not have a healthy control group. However, our primary goal was to identify changes in sleep duration and hours of PAP usage after the onset of the pandemic. A second limitation is the short duration of the study and the limited cohort size as only records of patients seen immediately after the lockdown were reviewed. It is possible that psychosocial stress and worsening mental health in the face of lockdown and economic downturn prevented some individuals from seeking medical help. In conclusion, the post COVID-19 lockdown has negatively affected sleep resulting in increase in insomnia without changes in PAP usage and self-reported sleep duration. Future long-term studies are needed to assess the effect of SARS-COV2 related stress on sleep duration and hours of PAP usage.

    Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.

    Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.

    Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.

    Results from rtransparent:
    • Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
    • Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
    • No protocol registration statement was detected.

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