NCT04053738

The Anti-snoring Bed

Completed NA Last updated 12 August 2019

What this trial tests

NA trial testing Anti-snoring bed in Snoring in 22 participants. Completed in 1 July 2018.

Timeline

1 January 2017

Primary endpoint
1 July 2018

1 July 2018

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Phase	NA
Status	Completed
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	randomized
Design	crossover
Masking	single
Primary purpose	treatment
Enrollment	22
Start date	1 January 2017
Primary completion	1 July 2018
Estimated completion	1 July 2018
Sites	1 location across Switzerland

Drugs / interventions tested

• Anti-snoring bed

Conditions studied

• Snoring — all drugs for Snoring →

Sponsor

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology

Who can join

Adults 18 to 100, any sex, with Snoring. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

Habitual snoring is a widespread complication. Most snorers snore predominately when sleeping in supine position. Therefore, therapeutic interventions force snorers to avoid supine position. Devices that restrict the sleeping position or raise alarms when the user obtains the supine position cause discomfort or disrupt sleep resulting in low compliance. Therefore, anti-snoring mechanisms, which lift the trunk of the user without disturbing sleep, have been proposed.

We set out to investigate whether individual interventions provided by beds with lifting mechanisms are able to stop snoring within three minutes (success rate) and whether the bed reduces the snoring index (number of total snores divided by total time in bed). In addition, we investigat whether the trunk elevation provided by the bed is interfering with the subjective sleep quality assessed using the Groningen Sleep Quality Score.

Subjects are observed for four nights (adaptation, baseline, and two intervention nights). During intervention nights, the bed lifts the trunk of the user in closed-loop manner. Subjects are divided in three groups (non-snorers, snorer group one, and snorer group two). Non-snorers are lifted by the bed at random time points during the night. In snorer group one, a stepwise increase of the bed inclination is compared with going directly to a randomly selected angle. In snorer group two, the influence of a small inclination angle (10°) and a big inclination angle (20°) is compared..

Publications & conference data

No peer-reviewed publications indexed yet for this trial. Completed trials usually publish results within 12-18 months.