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STOP-Bang screening on a Latin American news portal

A six-week drive inviting readers of a popular Latin American news site to take the STOP-Bang sleep apnea questionnaire and advising those at moderate or high risk to see a doctor.

Years
2025–now
Country
ArgentinaChile
Topic
Sleep
Asks people to
RecognizeSeek help
Strategy
Self screening
Channel
Website
Audience
Adults
general adult readers

Evidence

ProcessUnknown

5,966 adults completed it; 44.7% scored moderate-to-high OSA risk. No follow-up on care seeking.

Sponsor (who paid)

  • Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile / University of Buenos Aires researchers Academic

Credits (who made it)

Not recorded yet.

Sources

  1. Sleep apnea screening through a news portal using the STOP-bang questionnaire evaluation · 2025 · DOI 10.1007/s11325-025-03253-y · PMID 39853576

Research notes

Created 2026-10-23 from the sleep campaign literature search (PubMed and web search; OpenAlex was unreachable), see docs/sleep-campaigns-literature.md. Findings are paraphrased from abstracts, not full texts; official URLs come from search results and were not opened. Countries from author affiliations; the portal's country is not stated in the abstract. startYear 2025 is the earliest dated source found, not a confirmed launch year.

Record cases/cl-stop-bang-news-portal.json, updated 2026-10-23· Link to this campaign