The STOP-BANG questionnaire: reliability and validity of the Persian version in sleep clinic population

Quality of Life Research

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 2025-2030

  Sadeghniiat Haghighi, Khosro ^a,b   Montazeri, Ali ^c   Khajeh Mehrizi, Ahmad ^a,d   Ghajarzadeh, Mahsa ^e   Alemohammad, Zahra Banafsheh ^a,b   Aminian, Omid ^b   Sedaghat, Mojtaba ^b  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c AVICENNA RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Iran)

^d TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^e TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Obstructive sleep apnea; Persian; Polysomnography; Reliability; STOP BANG; Validity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CLINICAL TRIAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IRAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PROCEDURES; PUBLICATION; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SLEEP APNEA, OBSTRUCTIVE; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADULT; AMBULATORY CARE FACILITIES; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEMOGRAPHY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; QUALITY OF LIFE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SLEEP APNEA, OBSTRUCTIVE; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; TRANSLATIONS;

EID: 84937252693     PISSN: 09629343     EISSN: 15732649     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11136-015-0923-9     Document Type: Article

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