ArticleJournal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine2019
Adherence to Positive Airway Pressure for the Treatment of Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Children With Developmental Disabilities.
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Positive Airway Pressure for the Treatment of the Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome in Children With Down Syndrome (Stage 1)
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19 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 45 citations in OpenAlex.
- Paediatric Long-Term Home Respiratory Support: Recommendations of the Swiss Society of Paediatric Pulmonology.Respiration; international review of thoracic diseases · 2026Guideline
- Long-Term Non-invasive Ventilation in Children With Down Syndrome: A Systematic Review.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2022Pooled it
- Implementation and feasibility of an interdisciplinary pediatric positive airway pressure adaptation program in a Brazilian public sleep clinic.Frontiers in sleep · 2026Article
- Adherence to positive airway pressure therapy in patients with Down syndrome: assessing cloud-based monitoring data.Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine · 2025Article
- How adherent are children with Down syndrome and obstructive sleep apnea to positive airway pressure therapy?Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine · 2025Article
- Preliminary investigation of obstructive sleep apnea and Alzheimer's disease in down syndrome.Sleep advances : a journal of the Sleep Research Society · 2025Article
- Medical Treatment of Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Children.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Review
- Caregiver experiences helping children with Down syndrome use positive airway pressure to treat obstructive sleep apnea.Sleep medicine · 2023Article
- Adherence to Continuous Positive Airway Pressure Therapy in Pediatric Patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea: A Meta-Analysis.Therapeutics and clinical risk management · 2023Review
- Positive airway pressure for the treatment of the childhood obstructive sleep apnea syndrome.Pediatric pulmonology · 2022Review
- Clinical utility of repeated positive airway pressure titrations in children with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome.Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine · 2022Article
- Feasibility and Long-Term Compliance to Continuous Positive Airway Pressure Treatment in Adults With Down Syndrome, a Genetic Form of Alzheimer's Disease.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Article
- To Wear or Not Wear the Mask: Decline in Positive Airway Pressure Usage in Children with Sleep Disordered Breathing During the COVID-19 Pandemic.Nature and science of sleep · 2022Article
- Sleep Disorders in Adults with Down Syndrome.Journal of clinical medicine · 2021Review
- Defining the patterns of PAP adherence in pediatric obstructive sleep apnea: a clustering analysis using real-world data.Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine · 2021Article
- Positive airway pressure adherence in pediatric obstructive sleep apnea: A systematic scoping review.Sleep medicine reviews · 2020Article
- Factors related to positive airway pressure therapy adherence in children with obesity and sleep-disordered breathing.Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine · 2020Article
- Treatment of Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Children: Handling the Unknown with Precision.Journal of clinical medicine · 2020Article
- Adherence in children using positive airway pressure therapy: a big-data analysis.The Lancet. Digital health · 2020Article
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Abstract
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objectivesTo determine whether adherence to positive airway pressure (PAP) differs in children with developmental disabilities (DD) compared to typically developing (TD) children.
methodsPAP adherence of 240 children initiated on PAP for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) was retrospectively analyzed. Adherence between groups, expressed as percentage of nights used and hours of usage on nights used at 3 and 6 months, was compared. Predictive factors of adherence were studied using a median regression model.
resultsA total of 103 children with DD (median [interquartile range] age = 7.9 [3.2-13.1] years) and 137 TD (11.0 [5.5-16.1],
conclusionsChildren with DD had better PAP adherence expressed as percentage of nights used than TD children. Hours of usage on nights used at 3 and 6 months were similar between groups and improved over time. Higher income and titration at or before 6 months were predictive of adherence in all children. These findings indicate that children with DD can successfully wear PAP.
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