Lim P V, Curry A R
Department of Ear, Nose and Throat Surgery, Walsgrave Hospital, Coventry, UK.
J Laryngol Otol. 1999 Apr;113(4):336-40. doi: 10.1017/s0022215100143919.
We propose a new questionnaire-based method for evaluating and reporting the severity of snoring, the snoring scale score (SSS), which provides an assessment of the loudness, frequency and periodicity of snoring sound. Ninety-nine patients with snoring problems were assessed and the results of 19 patients who underwent surgery to reduce snoring were reported using the SSS and the linear analogue score (LAS) at six weeks and six months after surgery. All patients reported reduction of snoring on both the SSS and LAS after surgery although minor discrepancies of reporting were found in six patients when comparisons were made between reporting of outcome using the SSS and LAS. Our study suggested that the SSS offers a uniform, comprehensive and simple to understand method for the evaluation, grading and reporting of snoring which is not currently available.
我们提出了一种基于问卷的新方法来评估和报告打鼾的严重程度，即打鼾量表评分（SSS），它可对打鼾声音的响度、频率和周期性进行评估。对99例有打鼾问题的患者进行了评估，并报告了19例接受手术以减轻打鼾的患者在术后六周和六个月时使用SSS和线性模拟评分（LAS）的结果。所有患者术后在SSS和LAS上均报告打鼾减轻，尽管在使用SSS和LAS报告结果进行比较时，有6例患者存在轻微的报告差异。我们的研究表明，SSS为打鼾的评估、分级和报告提供了一种统一、全面且易于理解的方法，而目前尚无此类方法。
