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Stated patient preferences for overnight at-home diagnostic assessment of sleep disorders

HumanInsight Stated patient preferences for overnight at-home diagnostic assessment of sleep disorders

Sleep Breath. 2024 Jun 15. doi: 10.1007/s11325-024-03080-7. Online ahead of print.

ABSTRACT

PURPOSE: The diagnostic workup for assessment of sleep disorders commonly involves overnight testing to assess sleep patterns and pathological events. So far, little is known about preferences for provision of home sleep tests to patients with sleep disorders. This study aims to close this gap by eliciting preferences for home sleep testing using a discrete choice experiment (DCE).

METHODS: A DCE with seven attributes of at-home sleep testing and three levels per attribute was developed using a fractional factorial design. Patients with and without previous sleep testing experience were recruited from two large sleep centers in Germany. Coefficients for attribute levels were calculated using a conditional logit model to estimate their influence on choice decisions and calculate the relative importance of each attribute.

RESULTS: 305 patients (54.5 ± 13,1 years, 65.3% male) were enrolled, and 288 surveys with complete data included for analysis. Attributes with greatest relevance were Waiting time to discuss sleep study results; Waiting time to conduct sleep study, and Sleep quality during measurement. Of lowest importance was Diagnostic accuracy of sleep study, followed by Effort to apply sleep study device. Significant heterogeneity in choice behavior was found, including differences by gender, willingness-to-pay for sleep studies, and previous experience with sleep studies. Preferred location for conducting sleep testing was at-home in 50.7% and in-lab in 46.9%.

CONCLUSIONS: Preferences and relative importance of home sleep test attributes vary among different subgroups. Considering those preferences can be important for clinicians and policymakers when designing care pathways and planning of testing policies for sleep disorders.

PMID:38878157 | DOI:10.1007/s11325-024-03080-7

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