Child Behavior and Quality of Life in Pediatric Obstructive Sleep Apnea
Archives of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck SurgeryPublished 1 January 2005
Khoa D. Tran, Cuong D. Nguyen, Jeremy Weedon, Nira A. Goldstein
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Behavior and emotional difficulties are found in children with documented OSA compared with control children, and they improve after treatment, and large improvements in disease-specific quality of life are found.
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Behavioral and emotional difficulties are found in children with documented OSA compared with control children, and they improve after treatment. Large improvements in disease-specific quality of life are also found. Scores on a standardized measure of behavior assessment demonstrated significant correlation with scores on a validated quality-of-life instrument.
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