Sleep Specialty Consultation: Improving Management of Sleep Disorders
Completed · Not applicable
Conditions studied: Sleep Disorders
In brief
Sleep disorders are prevalent health problems that reduce quality of life, increase risks for medical disease, and enhance healthcare costs/utilization. Only a small proportion of these cases are diagnosed in primary care. Pilot data from this VA suggest that sleep disorders are not adequately managed in a primary care setting: 33% of veterans with an insomnia complaint had an undiagnosed primary sleep disorder (e.g., sleep apnea), and 50% of these patients were prescribed pharmacologic treatment for insomnia by their primary care providers.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT00390572
- Run by
- US Department of Veterans Affairs
- People needed
- 156
- Starts
- 2007-01-01
- Expected to finish
- 2010-12-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2015-04-24
Who can join
Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- veteran seen at Durham VAMC for primary care;
- must have had a sleep complaint for > 1 month;
- not being treated by a sleep specialist for sleep complaint;
- provide informed consent;
- have concurrence for enrollment from their assigned MD PCP;
- score >5 on the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index at time of screening
You may not qualify if…
- terminal illness;
- acute or highly unstable Axis I psychiatric condition;
- not mentally competent;
- unstable living environment;
- unstable medical or psychiatric condition;
- established sleep disorder or currently under the care of one or more of our VAMC's sleep disorders specialists;
- previous evaluation by sleep disorders specialist;
- refuse to give informed consent
Where it is running
- Durham VA Medical Center, Durham, NC — Durham, North Carolina, United States
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