Paper Info
Title
Sensor-Based Measurement of Nociceptive Pain: An Exploratory Study with Healthy Subjects
Abstract
Valid assessment of pain is essential in daily clinical practice to enhance the quality of care for the patients and to avoid the risk of addiction to strong analgesics. The aim of this paper is to find a method for objective and quantitative evaluation of pain using multiple physiological markers. Data was obtained from healthy volunteers exposed to thermal and ischemic stimuli. Twelve subjects were recruited and their physiological data including skin conductance, heart rate, and skin temperature were collected via a wrist-worn sensor together with their selfreported pain on a visual analogue scale (VAS). Statistically significant differences (p < 0.01) were found between physiological scores obtained with the wearable sensor before and during the thermal test. Test-retest reliability of sensor-based measures was good during the thermal test with intraclass correlation coefficients ranging from 0.22 to 0.89. These results support the idea that a multi-sensor wearable device can objectively measure physiological reactions in the subjects due to experimentally induced pain, which could be used for daily clinical practice and as an endpoint in clinical studies. Nevertheless, the results indicate a need for further investigation of the method in real-life pain settings.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1007/978-3-030-99194-4_7
PERVASIVE COMPUTING TECHNOLOGIES FOR HEALTHCARE, PERVASIVE HEALTH 2021
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Pain, Sensors, Physiological data, Healthy subjects
Conference
431
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1867-8211
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
9
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mevludin Memedi100.34
Adriana Miclescu200.34
Lenka Katila300.34
Marianne Claesson400.34
Marie Essermark500.34
Per Holm600.34
Gunnar O. Klein700.34
Jack Spira800.34
Rolf Karlsten900.34