Feasibility of Home video polysomnography version 1 dated 8/10/13
Research type
Research Study
Full title
A feasibility study assessing Home Video Polysomnography (HVP) as an acceptable diagnostic procedure for adult patients with parasomnias
IRAS ID
129598
Contact name
Peter Muthinji
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Research summary
Human adults spend about one third of their lives in sleep. Sleep disorders are complex disease entities characterized by disturbance in the individuals’ quantity, quality or timing of sleep, or in behavioural or physiological features associated with sleep.
A particular category of sleep disorders encountered in neurology is parasomnia. They are characterized by undesirable physical events/experiences or physiological activities occurring in sleep/wake transitions or within sleep. They can disrupt sleep and affect patient's daytime functioning and if violent, they can cause injury to self or others. Parasomnias, therefore, present major public health issues, associated with numerous societal consequences. Early diagnosis and treatment of these disorders constitute a major step in addressing parasomnia related problems. Attended laboratory polysomnography which is a standard overnight sleep test is the present gold standard for sleep disorders assessment.
However, this laboratory gold standard, studies sleep patterns in unnatural environment, is expensive and requires change of individual’s habitual sleep routines. A potential way of addressing this is to take advantage of advancing technology to develop a telehealth model of home based full video-polysomnography by modifying the current gold standard to be adaptable to home environment. The purpose of this project is to explore the feasibility Home Video Polysomnography (HVP) as a potential method of assessing adult patients with parasomnias. The study will seek to find out if Polysomnographic data recorded at home is of sufficient good quality to allow characterisation of physiological and behaviours features in sleep. Secondly, the study will explore patients’ perspectives to allow an understanding of patients’ acceptability of this procedure and finally the study will explore cost involved in carrying out such procedure to inform its financial viability.
The study is expected to last for 15 months to study 30 patients. Each participant will undergo HVP for 2-3 days in their own homes.REC name
London - Dulwich Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
14/LO/0457
Date of REC Opinion
16 Jun 2014
REC opinion
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