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Sleep Quality Evolution: Dreem Under CPAP

Evolution of Sleep Quality During the Initiation of Continuous Positive Airway Pressure Treatment in Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome: An Exploratory Study

Status
Completed
Phases
Unknown
Study type
Interventional
Source
ClinicalTrials.gov
Registry ID
NCT05197855
Enrollment
70
Registered
2022-01-20
Start date
2022-10-03
Completion date
2026-04-13
Last updated
2026-06-17

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

Obstructive Sleep Apnea, Sleep Apnea

Keywords

Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP), Technological innovations, Sleep Stages, Dreem Headband

Brief summary

Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) has a caricatural effect in reducing nocturnal respiratory abnormalities and improving the micro-and macrostructure of sleep. Studies characterizing the improvement of acute sleep parameters after the initiation of CPAP are limited to one or two nights of polysomnographic recording. This is related to the cost of performing these studies with repeated recordings in the laboratory and to the acceptability by patients to perform multiple nights of recordings. Investigators currently have powerful and reliable methods allowing us to carry out nights at home in the patient's ecosystem, in real-life conditions. The characterization of sleep parameters by these methods is equivalent to a polysomnographic recording. These technological innovations will allow us to characterize sleep before the initiation of CPAP treatment during several nights performed at home. Investigators will then be able to characterize the kinetics and stability of the improvement of sleep parameters in patients with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome in whom continuous positive airway pressure is initiated. These data will be original and will serve as exploratory data to judge whether the objective improvement of sleep parameters in the first weeks of treatment is associated with improvement in sleepiness, quality of life, and compliance with treatment.

Detailed description

This study aims to evaluate the quality of sleep, principally the deep slow-wave sleep (sleep stage N3) before and after the initiation of continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) treatment. 70 newly diagnosed patients with OSA requiring CPAP treatment, will be included. For the study, they will wear the Dreem 3 headband and pulse oximeter at home before initiation of CPAP (for 7 nights) and during the first month of CPAP (for a minimum of 9 nights). They will be also equipped with a glucose sensor and a pedometer during the entire study period before and after CPAP treatment. Patients will also complete questionnaires about their health status before CPAP treatment (at inclusion) and after one month of treatment These devices will allow the measurements of different parameters: sleep stages, total sleep time, sleep measures derived from sleep stages, snoring, breathing rate, heart rate head movements, arterial hemoglobin oxygen saturation, pulse rate, continuous subcutaneous glucose level, and physical activity data (average daily steps, average distance walked per day). This will generate interesting data on the sleep parameters and their evolution during the initiation of the CPAP treatment.

Interventions

DEVICEDeem 3 Headband

The patient will wear the Dreem 3 headband and pulse oximeter at home before initiation of CPAP (for 7 nights) and during a month of treatment (for a minimum of 9 nights), after the initiation of CPAP. He will also wear a glucose sensor and a pedometer during the entire study period before and after CPAP treatment.

Sponsors

University Hospital, Grenoble
Lead SponsorOTHER
Dreem
CollaboratorINDUSTRY
AGIR à Dom
CollaboratorOTHER

Study design

Allocation
NA
Intervention model
SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
30 Years to 65 Years
Healthy volunteers
No

Inclusion criteria

* Patients newly diagnosed with OSA requiring CPAP treatment * Patients able to use a mobile application on a smartphone or tablet * Patients with access to a wi-fi internet connection at home * Patients agreeing to remote monitoring of CPAP compliance data by the home care provider * Patients who have signed consent to participate in the study * Subjects affiliated to a social security

Exclusion criteria

* Patients already treated for OSA * Patients treated with a sleep aid (sleeping medications) * Patients with severe chronic obstructive or restrictive lung disease with or without oxygen * Patients with unstable cardiovascular disease or severe heart failure requiring hospitalization within the last three months or meeting New York Heart Association criteria, Class III or IV disease * Subjects listed in articles L1121-5 to L1121-8: pregnant women, feeding and parturients, subjects deprived of liberty by judicial or administrative decision, persons under legal protection * Persons in a period of exclusion from another study or ongoing participation in a drug study * Subjects likely, at the investigator's discretion, to be uncooperative or noncompliant with the obligations inherent to participation in the study

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Duration of deep slow-wave sleep (sleep stage N3) before and after initiation of continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) treatment.7 nights before CPAP initiation and for a month (minimum 9 nights) after CPAP initiationTime spent on the deep slow-wave sleep stage (stage N3 sleep), recorded by the Dreem 3 headband, from 7 nights before and 9 nights after initiation of CPAP treatment

Secondary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Duration of the other sleep stages (W, N1, N2 and REM)7 nights before CPAP initiation and for a month (minimum 9 nights) after CPAP initiationSleep stages (W, N1, N2 and REM) and total sleep time spent in each sleep stage, recorded by the Dreem 3. All the data units are in minutes
Duration of different sleep times7 nights before CPAP initiation and for a month (minimum 9 nights) after CPAP initiationSleep parameters recorded by Dreem 3 headband: sleep times (bedtime, total sleep time (TST), sleep onset delay (SOD),time in bed (TIB), time awake after falling asleep (WASO), final wakefulness time)
The percentage of time while sleeping7 nights before CPAP initiation and for a month (minimum 9 nights) after CPAP initiationSleep parameter recorded by Dreem 3 headband: sleep efficiency ((TST/TIB) x100)
The frequences of sleep waves during the NREM sleep stage recorded by Dreem 3 headband7 nights before CPAP initiation and for a month (minimum 9 nights) after CPAP initiationsleep spindle density expressed in Hertz recorded by the EEG sensors
The frequence of snoring while sleeping recorded by Dreem 3 headband7 nights before CPAP initiation and for a month (minimum 9 nights) after CPAP initiationsnoring is expressed in decibel minute recorded by a microphone integrated in the Dreem3
Respiratory rate measurment recorded by Dreem 3 headband7 nights before CPAP initiation and for a month (minimum 9 nights) after CPAP initiationIt is expressed in breathe per minute recorded accelerometer sensor
Heart rate measurement while sleepingrecorded by Dreem 3 headband7 nights before CPAP initiation and for a month (minimum 9 nights) after CPAP initiationExpressed in beats per minute recorded by accelerometer sensor
The position of the head changes while sleeping recorded by Dreem 3 headband7 nights before CPAP initiation and for a month (minimum 9 nights) after CPAP initiationHead movements are recorded by an accelerometer sensor in the Dreem 3 Headband
Evolution of the nocturnal oximetry7 nights before CPAP initiation and for a month (minimum 9 nights) after CPAP initiationNocturnal oxygen saturation measured by a pulse oximeter
Evolution of the subcutaneous glucose level7 nights before CPAP initiation and for a month after CPAP initiationContinuous subcutaneous glucose level (measured by FreeStyle Libre 2 continuous glucose sensor)
Evolution of glycemiaAt inclusion and a month after CPAP initiationBlood glucose level by blood sampling
Average daily number of steps7 nights before CPAP initiation and for a month after CPAP initiationIt will be measured by a Garmin Vivofit 3 pedometer expressed in steps/day
Average distance walked per day7 nights before CPAP initiation and for a month after CPAP initiationIt will be measured by a Garmin Vivofit 3 pedometer expressed in Kilometer
Sleep quality assessed by Pittsburg questionnaireAt inclusion and a month after CPAP initiationThe PSQI includes a scoring key for calculating a patient's seven subscores, each of which can range from 0 to 3. The subscores are tallied, yielding a "global" score that can range from 0 to 21. A global score of 5 or more indicates poor sleep quality; the higher the score, the worse the quality.
Severity of insomnia measured by the index sverety of insomnia questionnaireAt inclusion and a month after CPAP initiationThe general ISI score varies between 0 and 28: -7 = No insomnia 8-14 = Sub-clinical insomnia (mild) 15-21 = Clinical insomnia (moderate) 22-28 = Clinical insomnia (severe)
Evolution of the somnolenceAt inclusion and a month after CPAP initiationEpworth Sleepiness Score (ESS): 0 = no chance of dozing or falling asleep 1. = low chance of falling asleep 2. = medium chance of falling asleep 3. = high chance of falling asleep
Evolution of the quality of life by the Short Form 36 health survey questionnaireAt inclusion and a month after CPAP initiationA score of zero is equivalent to maximum disability and a score of 100 is equivalent to no disability.
Evolution of the compliance of CPAP treatmentFor a month during CPAP treatmentCollection of average CPAP treatment use (in hours/day) provided by telemonitoring
Evolution of the effectiveness of CPAP treatmentFor a month during CPAP treatmentCollection of residual AHI provided by telemonitoring

Countries

France

Contacts

PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATORJean Louis Pépin, MD, PhD

Grenoble Alpes University Hospital (CHUGA)

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Jun 18, 2026