Compliance with nasal CPAP can be improved by simple interventions

RD Chervin, S Theut, C Bassetti, MS Aldrich - Sleep, 1997 - academic.oup.com
Effectiveness of continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) as a treatment for obstructive
sleep apnea can be limited by poor compliance, but little is known about how to improve …

Integrating psychology and medicine in CPAP adherence–new concepts?

MR Crawford, CA Espie, DJ Bartlett… - Sleep Medicine Reviews, 2014 - Elsevier
To date, continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) is the most effective intervention in the
treatment of obstructive sleep apnoea, but adherence to this treatment is often less than …

Psychological variables as predictors of adherence to treatment by continuous positive airway pressure

C Poulet, D Veale, N Arnol, P Lévy, JL Pepin, J Tyrrell - Sleep medicine, 2009 - Elsevier
STUDY OBJECTIVES: We examined whether psychological variables enable us to predict
adherence to CPAP in order to construct a predictive model to identify patients at risk of …

CPAP adherence of patients with obstructive sleep apnea

B Salepci, B Caglayan, N Kiral, ET Parmaksiz… - Respiratory …, 2013 - rc.rcjournal.com
BACKGROUND: Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) and bi-level positive airway
pressure (BPAP) are the gold standard treatments for obstructive sleep apnea syndrome …

Adherence to continuous positive airway pressure therapy in obstructive sleep apnoea sufferers: a theoretical approach to treatment adherence and intervention

S Olsen, S Smith, TPS Oei - Clinical psychology review, 2008 - Elsevier
Obstructive Sleep Apnoea (OSA) is a common sleep disorder associated with significant
health, quality of life and psychosocial problems. The aims of this review are to investigate …

Can psychological factors help us to determine adherence to CPAP? A prospective study

MR Wild, HM Engleman, NJ Douglas… - European Respiratory …, 2004 - Eur Respiratory Soc
The present study objective was to establish whether pretreatment social cognitive variables
may contribute to the explanation of variance in adherence to continuous positive airway …

A self-management approach to improving continuous positive airway pressure adherence and outcomes

CJ Stepnowsky, JJ Palau, AL Gifford… - Behavioral sleep …, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a condition with serious medical and psychosocial
consequences. Low patient adherence to nasal continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) …

Sleep maintenance insomnia complaints predict poor CPAP adherence: a clinical case series

EM Wickwire, MT Smith, S Birnbaum, NA Collop - Sleep medicine, 2010 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: Although CPAP is a highly efficacious treatment for obstructive sleep
apnea (OSA), low adherence presents a significant challenge for sleep medicine clinicians …

A telemedicine intervention to improve adherence to continuous positive airway pressure: a randomised controlled trial

D Sparrow, M Aloia, DA DeMolles, DJ Gottlieb - Thorax, 2010 - thorax.bmj.com
Background Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) is the most widely prescribed
treatment for obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome (OSAS). Although it has been shown to …

Maximizing positive airway pressure adherence in adults: a common-sense approach

EM Wickwire, CJ Lettieri, AA Cairns, NA Collop - Chest, 2013 - Elsevier
Positive airway pressure (PAP) therapy is considered the most efficacious treatment of
obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), especially moderate to severe OSA, and remains the most …