Sleep Disorders Trial, Recruiting
Who may be able to join
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Who might be able to join this trial:
Healthy volunteers (Group 1):
- People who have no known sleep disorders, based on several standard sleep questionnaires showing normal results
- People who score below 11 on the Epworth Sleepiness Scale (a questionnaire measuring daytime sleepiness)
- People who score below 6 on the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (a questionnaire about sleep quality)
- People whose Berlin Questionnaire results show fewer than 2 positive categories (a questionnaire about breathing during sleep)
- People who score below 3 on the STOP-BANG questionnaire (a tool used to assess risk of breathing problems during sleep)
- People whose anxiety and depression scores fall within the normal range on the HADS questionnaire
- People who do not have Restless Legs Syndrome (an urge to move the legs, often at night)
People with severe sleep apnoea (Group 2):
- People who have been diagnosed with severe obstructive sleep apnoea, meaning their breathing stops and restarts more than 30 times per hour during sleep
Who may not be able to join:
- People who have a heart rhythm disorder
- People who have a neurological or psychiatric condition that affects the autonomic nervous system (the part of the nervous system that controls automatic body functions)
- Healthy volunteers who have a complaint about their sleep or a known sleep disorder
- People in the sleep apnoea group who have an additional sleep condition alongside their severe sleep apnoea diagnosis
- People who are not able to understand the information provided about the study
- People who are not able to take part in the full study
- People who do not have French social security coverage
- People who do not wish to sign a consent form
- Healthy volunteers in whom a sleep disorder is detected during the overnight sleep study (polysomnography)
- Healthy volunteers who sleep for less than 4 hours during the overnight sleep recording
- Healthy volunteers whose overnight sleep recording is of insufficient technical quality to be used
Important: Always verify eligibility with the trial site directly before applying.
Based on publicly available eligibility criteria from ClinicalTrials.gov. Verify directly with the trial site before acting. This is not medical advice.
Contact this trial
Principal Investigator: Philippe DERAMBURE, MD, University Hospital, Lille
Phone: 0320445962
Contact details sourced from ClinicalTrials.gov. Verify directly with the trial site before attending.
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Trial details
Where this trial is recruiting
Primary endpoints
Ability of the high frequency variability index (HFVI) measured in REM sleep phase to differentiate subjects with severe SAS and healthy subjects with sleep pathology
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Data last synced from ClinicalTrials.gov: 7 July 2026. Trial status can change. Always verify current status directly with the trial site before making any decision.