BACKGROUND: Many patients abandon continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP)
treatment after initial acceptance. This may be for physical or psychological reasons …

Though continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) is the treatment of choice for the sleep
apnoea/hypopnoea syndrome (SAHS), suboptimal adherence to CPAP is common …

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 …

BACKGROUND The sleep apnoea/hypopnoea syndrome (SAHS) is common and treatment
with continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) is effective. However, not all patients can …

Obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) is a disorder that severely disrupts sleep and may lead to
severe long-and short-term health consequences. Continuous positive airway pressure …

Adherence to continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) therapy for obstructive sleep
apnoea (OSA) is often poor. Biomedical indices explain little of the variance in CPAP use …

Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) is the treatment of choice for obstructive sleep
apnoea syndrome (OSAS), but low adherence rates are common. The aim was to develop …

Background: Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) is a sleep-related breathing
disorder characterized by excessive daytime sleepiness, accidents and high medical …

Background: The reasons that a patient has to start treatment, their “Cues to Action,” are
important for determining subsequent health behaviors. Cues to action are an explicit …

Physicians have considered continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) to be the optimal
therapy for patients with moderate to severe obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS). 1 …