Emotional Intelligence in Children with Severe Sleep-Related Breathing Disorders

Table 2

Comparisons for means and standard deviation (±) between the children affected by obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) and non-OSAS (nOSAS) children in nocturnal respiratory parameters.

Nocturnal respiratory parameters	OSAS; ()	nOSAS; ()	-test ()
Total sleep time (TST)			-12.252	<0.001
Apnea/hypopnea index (AHI)/hour			189.53	<0.001
Oxygen desaturation index (ODI)/hour			55.893	<0.001
Oxygen mean saturation percentage (%)			-28.075	<0.001
Oxygen desaturation level percentage (%)			112.111	<0.001

Nocturnal respiratory parameters: total sleep time (TST), apnea/hypopnea index (AHI)/hour, oxygen desaturation index (ODI)/hour, oxygen mean saturation percentage (%), and oxygen desaturation level percentage (%). values < 0.05 are statistically significant. df: degrees of freedom.