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. 2024 Oct:77:101963.
doi: 10.1016/j.smrv.2024.101963. Epub 2024 May 30.

Management of primary snoring in adults: A scoping review examining interventions, outcomes and instruments used to assess clinical effects

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Management of primary snoring in adults: A scoping review examining interventions, outcomes and instruments used to assess clinical effects

Chidsanu Changsiripun et al. Sleep Med Rev. 2024 Oct.

Abstract

While various treatment options for primary snoring are available, evidence-based recommendations to determine the optimal intervention remain unestablished. To inform future directions of research to guide clinical decision-making, this scoping review was conducted to map the existing evidence on interventions for primary snoring, the outcomes and instruments used to assess their clinical effects in adults. The feasibility of conducting further systematic reviews and comparing outcomes across these therapies using network meta-analysis was also assessed. Of the 1673 records identified, 38 interventional studies met the inclusion criteria with three-fifths of them being before-after studies. The most common reason for study exclusion was results being reported for patients with primary snoring and obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) combined. Interventions were surgical (73 %), behavioural and the use of devices/medications. Twenty-six common outcomes were identified and categorised into six domains. Fifty-nine instruments were used to assess the outcomes and based mainly on non-validated questionnaires. Our findings indicated (1) the need for randomised controlled trials with strict discrimination between patients with primary snoring and OSA, (2) further network meta-analyses using some outcomes is feasible, and (3) a core outcome set to inform standardised reporting for future research should be developed.

Keywords: Instrument; Intervention; Network meta-analysis; Outcome; Primary snoring; Scoping review.

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