Berlin Questionnaire: Sleep Apnea

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Berlin Questionnaire©

Sleep Apnea
Height (m) ______ Weight (kg) ______ Age ______ Male / Female

Please choose the correct response to each question.


During
Category 1 How often your
do you waking
1. Do you snore? feel tired time, do
or fatigued you feel
a. Yes after your tired,
sleep? fatigued or
b. No □ a. not up to
c. Don’t know Almost par?
every day
If you answered ‘yes’: □ b. 3-4 □ a. Almost
times per every day
week □ c. □ b. 3-4
1-2 times times per
2. You snoring is:
per week week □ c.
□ d. 1-2 1-2 times
a. Slightly louder than breathing times per per week □
month d. 1-2
b. As loud as talking times per
□ e. month
c. Louder than talking Rarely or
never □ e. Rarely
Category 2 or never
oth Has ep? you ever
How often do you er any a. Almost nodded off
snore? pe one every day or fallen
opl noti b. 3-4 asleep
a. Almost every e? ced times per while
day a. that week driving a
b. 3-4 times per Yes you c. 1-2 vehicle?
week b. sto times per a. Yes
c. 1-2 times per No p week b. No
week bre
c. athi d. 1-2 If you
d. 1-2 times per Do ng times per answered
month n’t duri month ‘yes’:
e. Rarely or never kno ng □ e. Rarely
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Has your snoring r often
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occur? we mo
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a. Almost every e. 3
day d. Rar No
1-2 ely 10. Do you Don’t know
b. 3-4 times per tim or have high
week es nev blood
c. 1-2 times per per er pressure?
Scoring Berlin Questionnaire

The questionnaire consists of 3 categories related to the risk of having sleep


apnea. Patients can be classified into High Risk or Low Risk based on their
responses to the individual items and their overall scores in the symptom
categories.

Categories and Scoring: Category 1: items 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5; Item 1: if ‘Yes’,


assign 1 point
Item 2: if ‘c’ or ‘d’ is the response, assign 1 point Item 3: if ‘a’ or ‘b’ is the response,
assign 1 point Item 4: if ‘a’ is the response, assign 1 point
Item 5: if ‘a’ or ‘b’ is the response, assign 2 points
Add points. Category 1 is positive if the total score is 2 or more points.

Category 2: items 6, 7, 8 (item 9 should be noted separately). Item 6: if ‘a’ or ‘b’


is the response, assign 1 point
Item 7: if ‘a’ or ‘b’ is the response, assign 1 point
Item 8: if ‘a’ is the response, assign 1 point

Add points. Category 2 is positive if the total score is 2 or more points.

Category 3 is positive if the answer to item 10 is ‘Yes’ or if the BMI of the patient
is greater than 30kg/m2.
(BMI is defined as weight (kg) divided by height (m) squared, i.e.., kg/m 2).

High Risk: if there are 2 or more categories where the score is positive.

Low Risk: if there is only 1 or no categories where the score is positive.

Additional Question: item 9 should be noted separately.

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