Volume : IX, Issue : V, May - 2019

Identification of risk factors and risk status of Obstructed Sleep Apnoea (OSA) and problem faced by middle aged person attending general medicine outpatient department (OPD) of selected hospital, Kolkata.

Olyvia Ghosh, Mrs. Moitreyee Choudhuri

Abstract :

Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is the most common type of sleep apnea and is caused by complete or partial obstructions of the upper airway. Global and Indian prevalence of OSA is identified as 2%–7% and 9.3% respectively. A descriptive survey was undertaken with the objectives to identify the risk factors, to determine the risk status, to identify the problems of obstructive sleep apnea among middle aged person between the age group of 40–65 years and to find out the association between risk factors of obstructive sleep apnoea and selected demographic variables.The study settings was in the general medicine out patient department (OPD) of selected hospital, Kolkata. A valid and reliable semi–structured interview schedule was used to collect the data from 200 respondents who were selected through non probability purposive sampling. The study findings revealed that among all respondents, 39.5% of them were having the history of snoring and according to Berlin Questionnaire ,40.5 % of the respondents were at high risk and 59.5% of the respondents were at low risk of developing OSA. The study concluded that most of the respondents were at low risk for developing OSA and most of the respondents having disturbed sleep at night .

Keywords :

Article: Download PDF   DOI : 10.36106/ijar  

Cite This Article:

IDENTIFICATION OF RISK FACTORS AND RISK STATUS OF OBSTRUCTED SLEEP APNOEA (OSA) AND PROBLEM FACED BY MIDDLE AGED PERSON ATTENDING GENERAL MEDICINE OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT (OPD) OF SELECTED HOSPITAL, KOLKATA., Olyvia Ghosh, Mrs. Moitreyee Choudhuri INDIAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED RESEARCH : Volume-9 | Issue-5 | May-2019

Number of Downloads : 218

References :