Help & Earn With Snoring & Sleep Apnea Research At Home

Saturday, November 20th, 2010 at 6:44 PM

UVa Health System, Pulmonary and Critical Care Department seeks healthy children, adolescents, and young adults ages 5 to 20, with snoring and possible sleep-related obstructive breathing disorders for a research study.

The purpose of this study is to find out if an experimental portable device, called SoundTrak, can collect data about your breathing at home while you sleep, and determine whether you stop breathing during sleep (called sleep apnea). This data from the SoundTrak would then be compared to the data collected during a standard overnight sleep study at the General Clinical Research Center (GCRC) Sleep Lab.

The study involves 1 outpatient consent and screening visit that will last about 1 hour, 6 nights sleep monitoring at home, and 1 overnight stay at UVa Health Systems GCRC of about 16 hours for sleep monitoring.

Study-related screening visit and overnight sleep test (standard test to detect the presence of sleep apnea) provided free of charge.
Compensation for study completion is up to $ 270.00

Criteria for Inclusion:
Snoring
Enlarged Tonsils
Suspected Sleep Apnea

Criteria for exclusion:
Neurological diseases associated with altered level of consciousness, developmental delays, seizures requiring medication, autonomic dysfunction, neuromuscular weakness.
Pulmonary diseases associated with shortness of breath or gas exchange abnormalities including asthma, bronchitis, other obstructive lung diseases, pleural effusions, interstitial lung diseases, restrictive chest diseases.
Cardiac diseases that cause shortness of breath, heart failure, Cheyne-Stokes Respiration, hypoxia.
Developmental diseases that can contribute to abnormal breathing or sleep.
Taking medications which can cause somnolence or sleep.
Pregnancy of 20 weeks or more

Contact Information:
For more information please contact:
o Heather Bonner, Study Coordinator
o e-mail: hgb5z@virginia.edu, phone: (434)924-1650
o IRB HSR # 14121