Research Article
Sensor-Based Measurement of Nociceptive Pain: An Exploratory Study with Healthy Subjects
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-030-99194-4_7, author={Mevludin Memedi and Adriana Miclescu and Lenka Katila and Marianne Claesson and Marie Essermark and Per Holm and Gunnar O. Klein and Jack Spira and Rolf Karlsten}, title={Sensor-Based Measurement of Nociceptive Pain: An Exploratory Study with Healthy Subjects}, proceedings={Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare. 15th EAI International Conference, Pervasive Health 2021, Virtual Event, December 6-8, 2021, Proceedings}, proceedings_a={PERVASIVEHEALTH}, year={2022}, month={3}, keywords={Pain Sensors Physiological data Healthy subjects}, doi={10.1007/978-3-030-99194-4_7} }- Mevludin Memedi
Adriana Miclescu
Lenka Katila
Marianne Claesson
Marie Essermark
Per Holm
Gunnar O. Klein
Jack Spira
Rolf Karlsten
Year: 2022
Sensor-Based Measurement of Nociceptive Pain: An Exploratory Study with Healthy Subjects
PERVASIVEHEALTH
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-99194-4_7
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 self-reported 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.
