EFFECTS OF SLEEP ENVIRONMENT CHANGES ON SLEEP LATENCY : Arrangement of Test Rooms for Sleep Disordered Breathing Patients

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The purpose of the present study was to reconsider the sleeping environment for people suffering sleep-disordered breathing. We compared general hospital examination rooms with those specifically for sleep tests, and investigated how the sleeping environment affects patients as they fall asleep. Five hundred twenty-six patients at 2 institutions with suspected sleep-disordered breathing were classified by severity on the apnea-hypopnea index, and compared in terms of the time required to fall asleep (sleep latency). It was found that the sleep latency at a special sleep institution, which had taken care in setting up a positive sleeping environment, was shorter in all groups that was in a general hospital examination room. Polysomnography is essential in diagnosing sleep-disordered breathing, and is an important indicator in setting treatment policy. Together with proposals for the creation of an examination room environment suited to this test, examination of this problem may also lead to proposals for more comfortable bedrooms.
日本デザイン学会の論文
2002-07-31