Identification of the factors related to the treatments preferred by patients to overcome sleep apnea.

Sleep related disorders that causes abnormal pauses during sleep which are mainly of two types: OSA (Obstructive sleep apnea) and CSA (Central sleep apnea). Mainly OSA is commonly observable in people who are above 40-45 age. This is mainly because of unhealthy lifestyle and imbalanced diet. This study supports the efficacy and effectiveness of lifestyle interventions in the controlling of stress, improving mental health, changing sleeping habits. This study was carried out by using a questionnaire pertaining the lifestyle of people among the urban population to collect the data. The questionnaire provided us with the demographic data of the respondents, their lifestyles, occupation and weather they possess the disorder or not. Out of 445 people 49 were found to have sleep apnea condition. Factor analysis is used along with varimax rotation method and scree plot to identify the factors from the variables. Kaiser-Mayer-Olkin (KMO) measure was used to check sample adequacy and Bartlett’s test of Sphericity for multicollinearity among the variables. This study extracts four factors, ‘Lifestyle modification’, ‘Meditation’, ‘Immediate remedy’, ‘Medication’ from 11 different variables.