Clinical and PSG Characteristics of Children with Mild OSA and Respiratory Events Terminated Predominantly with Arousal

Table 3

Scores of SRBD and OSA-18 in children with mild OSA in two groups.

	Arousal predominant	Nonarousal predominant	Z	value
	n = 231	n = 346
Scores of SRBD questionnaire
Breathing	3 (1, 5)	3 (1, 5)	−0.548	0.584
Sleepiness	0 (0, 0)	0 (0, 0)	−0.754	0.451
Behavior	1 (0, 4)	1 (0, 3)	-0.561	0.575
Others	0 (0, 0)	0 (0, 1)	−3.396	0.001
Total	5 (2, 8)	5 (2, 8)	−0.073	0.942
Scores of OSA-18
Sleep disturbances	13 (10, 16)	13 (10, 16)	−0.028	0.978
Physical suffering	15 (13, 18)	15 (13, 18)	−0.058	0.954
Emotional distress	8 (6, 11)	9 (6, 12)	−0.461	0.645
Daytime function	9 (5, 11)	8 (6, 11)	−0.598	0.550
Caregiver concerns	19 (14, 22)	18 (15, 23)	−0.230	0.818
Total	62 (53, 75)	64 (53, 73)	−0.204	0.839

Only the score of question in “others” dimension “Is your child overweight?” was statistically significant (0(0, 0) versus 0(0, 1), Z = −3.396, ).