SUMMAR Y Interrater variability of sleep stage scorings is a well-known phenomenon. The SIESTA project offered the opportunity to analyse interrater reliability (IRR) between experienced scorers from eight European sleep laboratories within a large sample of patients with different (sleep) disorders: depression, general anxiety disorder with and without non-organic insomnia, Parkinson's disease, period limb movements in sleep and sleep apnoea. The results were based on 196 recordings from 98 patients (73 males: 52.3 ± 12.1 years and 25 females: 49.5 ± 11.9 years) for which two independent expert scorings from two different laboratories were available. Cohen's j was used to evaluate the IRR on the basis of epochs and intraclass correlation was used to analyse the agreement on quantitative sleep parameters. The overall level of agreement when five different stages were distinguished was j ¼ 0.6816 (76.8%), which in terms of j reflects a 'substantial' agreement (Landis and Koch, 1977). For different groups of patients j values varied from 0.6138 (Parkinson's disease) to 0.8176 (generalized anxiety disorder). With regard to (sleep) stages, the IRR was highest for rapid eye movement (REM), followed by Wake, slow-wave sleep (SWS), non-rapid eye movement 2 (NREM2) and NREM1. The results of regression analysis showed that age and sex only had a statistically significant effect on j when the (sleep) stages are considered separately. For NREM2 and SWS a statistically significant decrease of IRR with age has been observed and the IRR for SWS was lower for males than for females. These variations of IRR most probably reflect changes of the sleep electroencephalography (EEG) with age and gender.
The Siesta Project: This article describes contents and major results of the project SIESTA (BIOMED-2) supported by the European Commission. The main aim was intensive research on the architecture of human sleep and the development and evaluation of new methods for analysing sleep based on polygraphic recordings, mainly EEG. In this connection, alternatives to the rules set up by Rechtschaffen and Kales for the description of human sleep were investigated. The project SIESTA yielded two essential results: first of all, the model and the development of an automatic sleep analyser for polygraphic recordings with a time resolution up to 1 s. Validation of the results of the analyser is still in progress and reveals possibilities for adaptation and further development. Secondly, an essential result was setting up a normative database for polygraphic sleep recordings and additional subjective and objective parameters. The database contains data of 295 subjects each with two sleep recordings. The age distribution of 198 healthy subjects ranges from 20 to 90 years with an approximately equal distribution across the decades. Furthermore, the database comprises data of 97 patients. Key words: SIESTA project ± Polygraphic sleep recording ± Normative database ± Sleep analyser based on probabilistic principles Zusammenfassung: Dieser Artikel gibt einen Überblick über das von der Europäischen Kommission im Rahmen der BIOMED-2-Ausschreibungen geförderten Projektes SIESTA. Das wesentliche Ziel war die intensive Forschung zur Architektur des Schlafes und die Entwicklung und Evaluierung neuer Verfahren zur Schlafanalyse, aufbauend auf polygraphischen Ableitungen mit dem Schwergewicht auf dem EEG. Dabei stand im Vordergrund, Alternativen zu den bestehenden Regeln nach Rechtschaffen u. Kales für die Schlafbeurteilung aufzuzeigen. Das Projekt SIESTA erbrachte zwei wesentliche Ergebnisse: Erstens, den Entwurf und die Entwicklung eines automatischen Analysators für Schlafpolygraphien, aufbauend auf einem probabilistischen Prinzip, wobei die zeitliche Auflösung bis zu einer Sekunde betragen kann. Die Validierung der Ergebnisse des entwickelten Prototyps des Analysators ist derzeit im Gang und zeigt Möglichkeiten für Adaptierungen und Ausbau auf. Das zweite wesentliche Ergebnis war der Aufbau einer normativen Datenbank für Schlafpolygraphien und zusätzlichen subjektiven und objektiven Parametern: Die Datenbank enthält Daten von 295 Personen mit jeweils zwei Aufnahmen. Die Altersstruktur der insgesamt 198 Gesunden reicht von 20 ± 90 Jahre mit annähernd gleicher Verteilung in allen Dekaden. Weiter enthält die Datenbank die Aufnahmen von 97 Patienten. Das Projekt SIESTA, development of a System for Integrating polygraphic recordings for dEscribing Sleep archiTecture and its vAlidation on sleep disturbances, ein Projekt mit einer Laufzeit von 1998 ± 2000 im Rahmen des BIOMED-2-Programmes der EU-Komission, vereinigte insgesamt 17 Partner aus 7 EU-Ländern. Ziel war die intensive Forschung zur Architektur des Schlafes und die Entwicklung und E...
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