5. SUP Study characteristics.
| Study | Studies employing Supportive Intervention | Control | Study duration (weeks) | |
| Increased support and reinforcement components | Increased educational components (if applicable) | |||
| Chervin 1997 | Weekly telephone calls to monitor progress and troubleshoot | Usual care | 8 | |
| DeMolles 2004 | Computer‐based telecommunication system allowing for monitoring and reinforcing compliance | Education via computer‐based telecommunication system | Usual care | 8 |
| Fox 2012 | Telecomunication system for daily monitoring of CPAP usage, timely detection and troubleshooting of problems | Usual care | 12 | |
| Hoet 2017 | Telemonitoring device forair leaks, residual AHI > 10/h, or CPAP use less than 3 hours for 3 days | Usual care | 12 | |
| Hoy 1999 | 2 additional titration nights in hospital, 4 additional home visits by sleep nurses | Initial education at home with partner | Usual care | 24 |
| Hwang 2017 | Automatic processing of device data. Where CPAP usage thresholds met, automated message encouraged participant to improve use/positive reinforcement | Usual care | 12 | |
| Mendelson 2014 | Participants equipped with smartphone for uploading BP, CPAP adherence, sleepiness, and QoL data. They received daily pictograms containing health‐related messages | Usualo care | 16 | |
| Munafo 2016 | Web‐based app used to monitor adherence and automatically message patients and providers when pre‐set conditions met | Usual care | 12 | |
| Parthasarathy 2013 | 2 individual sessions and 8 telephone conversations with trained peer CPAP users providing support and sharing their positive experience with CPAP | Usual care | 12 | |
| Pepin 2019 | BP and physical activity recorded by multimodal telemonitoring device and electronic questionnaires completed by patients. Automatic algorithms constructed for prompt adjustment of CPAP treatment. | Usual care | 24 | |
| Stepnowsky 2007 | Daily wireless telemonitoring of compliance and treatment efficacy and acting on the data via prespecified clinical pathways | Usual care | 8 | |
| Stepnowsky 2013 | Telemonitoring device collecting daily CPAP adherence viewable by both patient and provider. Troubleshooting and feedback provided when necessary | Usual care | 16 | |
| Turino 2017 | Daily CPAP adherence, CPAP pressures, mask leak and residual respiratory events transmitted into a web database. Case by case guidance provided by provider when signalled by automatic alarm in the web database | Usual care | 12 | |
Abbreviations:
AHI: apnoea hypopnoea index; BP: Blood pressure; CPAP: continuous positive air pressure; QoL: quality of life.