Validation of Sleep Apnea Screening Device Phase II

Obstructive Sleep Apnea Clinical Trial

Official title:

Wireless Sensor Patch for Educing Barriers to In-home Sleep Apnea Screening, Phase II

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Terminated

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03025464
• Other study ID #: R42MD008845-02
• Status: Terminated
• Phase: Phase 2
• Start date: November 14, 2017
• Est. completion date: March 31, 2019

Study information

• Verified date: January 2023
• Source: University of Michigan
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is the most common type of sleep apnea. The marketplace currently does not have an affordable, easy-to-use, over-the-counter, home-based OSA screening device. An affordable, available, FDA-approved and easy-to-use over-the-counter OSA screening tool would allow greater screening of at-risk individuals, especially in underserved communities with low socioeconomic status, hopefully encouraging a greater proportion of such individuals to seek treatment for their condition. Over the past year, this investigative team has engineered a small screening device (Zerify®) for OSA and obtained preliminary evidence of its efficacy in a clinical population under a NIMHD-sponsored Phase I STTR award. Phase I Specific Aims 1 and 2 focused on developing a small (1.5 x 2.5 x 0.2 inches) semiconductor sensor that could store sound/motion data, transfer these data to a computer, and detect non-clinical simulated apnea events with a specificity and specificity exceeding 90%. Phase I Specific Aim 3 established the preliminary psychometric performance data of the screening device in a clinical sample of 52 patients (13% African American, 6% Asian, 4% Mixed or Other Race) against gold-standard polysomnography. Phase II proposal aims to optimize the engineered hardware and associated OSA algorithms, create a patient companion app and wireless healthcare provider dashboard, and compare the efficacy of this screening device to the most commonly utilized sleep apnea screener, the home sleep apnea test (HSAT).

Description:

An alternative to polysomnography (PSG), which is done overnight in a lab, is home sleep apnea testing (HSAT). Also known as out-of-center testing, HSAT has emerged as a more convenient and increasingly widely used method to screen for sleep apnea. HSAT records fewer signals for assessment, is less cumbersome than traditional PSG, and allows patients to spend the night at home, eliminating the need for technical staff to be present during testing. HSAT is considerably less expensive than PSG to perform. Despite its advantages, there are concerns about false-negatives and underestimation of disease severity with HSAT. There is clearly a need to improve the accuracy of less costly screening tools for OSA. Zansors® wireless microsensor is a novel device to screen for sleep apnea, which measures breathing patterns and movement, and which will collect data and communicate with a smartphone via Bluetooth. In this study, investigators are comparing the Zansors microsensor to HSAT and PSG to assess its accuracy. Patients will be asked to wear the device during the clinical HSAT ordered by their doctor, and again at an in-laboratory sleep study. When patients are being trained to use the HSAT equipment, research staff will also show them how to put the Zansors® device on. They will then wear it at home on the night of their HSAT. At a later date, when they come for the in-laboratory sleep study, the device will again be worn overnight while they are being assessed by the full PSG equipment. Together in this study, all these device recordings will help to detect any sleep apnea and researchers will compare the results of the Zansors ® microsensor with HSAT and PSG equipment. If the Zansors ® device is confirmed to detect sleep hypopneas and apneas accurately, it can be used easily and inexpensively by people at home to screen for obstructive sleep apnea.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Terminated
• Enrollment: 30
• Est. completion date: March 31, 2019
• Est. primary completion date: March 31, 2019
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years to 100 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Must be over 18 and referred by medical staff for an assessment for suspected sleep apnea using either a home sleep apnea testing device or in-lab PSG equipment

Exclusion Criteria:

• Pregnancy

• Heart disease including congestive heart failure or a pacemaker

• Breathing disorder (emphysema or chronic obstructive breathing disorder)

• Neurological disorder such as Parkinson's Disease

• Restless leg syndrome or Periodic limb movement

• Allergies to metal

• Pre-existing skin conditions where sensor would be attached

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Apnea
• Obstructive Sleep Apnea
• Sleep Apnea Syndromes
• Sleep Apnea, Obstructive

Intervention

Device:
• Obstructive Sleep Apnea Screening Device
Assessment of ability of device to detect apneas and hypopneas to screen for OSA

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	University of Michigan	Ann Arbor	Michigan

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Michigan	Zansors

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Specificity	Specificity of Zansors' device to detect hypopneas and apneas compared to home sleep apnea test devices and to polysomnography over an 8-hour period of sleep at 30-second intervals.	8 hours
Secondary	Sensitivity	Sensitivity of Zansors' device to detect hypopneas and apneas compared to home sleep apnea test devices and to polysomnography over an 8-hour period of sleep at 30-second intervals.	8 hours
Secondary	Positive Predictive Value (PPV)	PPV of Zansors' device to detect hypopneas and apneas compared to home sleep apnea test devices and to polysomnography over an 8-hour period of sleep at 30-second intervals.	8 hours
Secondary	Negative Predictive Value (NPV)	NPV of Zansors' device to detect hypopneas and apneas compared to home sleep apnea test devices and to polysomnography over an 8-hour period of sleep at 30-second intervals.	8 hours