Abstract
Sleeping next to someone with sleep apnea can have a significant impact on the quality of sleep and the health of both partners. The objective was to assess the emotional changes in the partners of patients with OSA. It is a comparative longitudinal study of 102 pairs of patients with a possible OSA diagnosis from January 2018 to October 2019. Female couples 85.7%. The mean age was 48.60 ± 8.99 for the couples. Emotional variables were analyzed through the HAD questionnaire (depression and anxiety), and we also included a Likert scale of the impact of OSA in couples created by the research team. The quality of life was evaluated with the SF-36 questionnaire. For the statistical processing and analysis of the data, the spss program was used. The conclusion was that couples after one year of CPAP treatment improvement in their mood. The results obtained suggest that treating the patient improves the quality of sleep for both.