Hello,
These Questionnaires are extensively used in both clinical and research settings. Berlin questionnaire has more questions and assists the patient snoring. But one disadvantage is that it only categorise patients to high or low risk. While STOP-bang questionnaire is shorter but it categorise patients to high , medium and low risk.
We are conducting a cross sectional study to find the prevalence of possible obstructive sleep apnea among dental patients based on sleep apnea questionnaire and oral findings (airway, tongue size...).
My question is: Which one of these questionnaires is recommended for such study?
I thing both are good for OSA screening. Other good option is Epworth.
Yagoub, I think that you should use both because these questionnaires were not validated among dental patients. We tried to understand which question is better and when compared to objective data in 49 random subjects, predictive values for sleep-disordered breathing detection were the same for simple question about apnea 3,9 (χ 2 = 6,4; p = 0,011) and Berlin questionnaire [3,9 (χ 2 = 9,3; p = 0,002)] and higher for ESS more than 13 [7.0 (χ 2 = 4,93; p = 0,026)]. Paper was published in Russian. We didn't use STOP-BANG questionnaire.
Good question!
Accuracy is similar in most studies.
The problem with the Berlin Q is the scoring system being so fuzzy, complicated, unreliable.
StopBang is the sensible, practical, simple choice.
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