Monitoring Pain in Patients with Chronic Pain with a Wearable Wristband in Daily Life: A Pilot Study

E. Pattyn, E. Pattyn, E. Vergaelen, E. Lutin, R. Van Stiphout, H. Davidoff, H. Davidoff, W. De Raedt, C. Van Hoof, C. Van Hoof, C. Van Hoof

2024

Abstract

Chronic pain is a complex and personal condition that imposes a substantial burden on both individuals and society. Potentially, wearable technology could enable continuous monitoring of pain in real-world settings, offering insights into the complex relationship between physiological states and chronic pain. In this pilot study, we evaluated the practicability of collecting physiological data, from ten individuals with chronic pain and ten healthy controls, using wearable wristbands and digital pain diaries for one week in their everyday lives. Additionally, we trained various machine learning classifiers to classify pain levels and evaluated which feature modalities, e.g., heart rate-derived features, yielded the highest balanced accuracy. Our results demonstrated satisfactory data quantity, with wristband data being available for patients and controls approximately 92% to 82% of the time, and data quality, with high-quality physiology ranging from 80% to 72% for the respective groups. The median balanced accuracies in distinguishing pain intensity classes ranged between 0.27 and 0.40. Furthermore, we found that individual modalities did not outperform the combined modalities. Nonetheless, further research with larger sample sizes is necessary to elucidate these relationships and improve pain management strategies for individuals with chronic pain.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Pattyn E., Vergaelen E., Lutin E., Van Stiphout R., Davidoff H., De Raedt W. and Van Hoof C. (2024). Monitoring Pain in Patients with Chronic Pain with a Wearable Wristband in Daily Life: A Pilot Study. In Proceedings of the 17th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies - Volume 2: HEALTHINF; ISBN 978-989-758-688-0, SciTePress, pages 330-339. DOI: 10.5220/0012315300003657

in Bibtex Style

@conference{healthinf24,
author={E. Pattyn and E. Vergaelen and E. Lutin and R. Van Stiphout and H. Davidoff and W. De Raedt and C. Van Hoof},
title={Monitoring Pain in Patients with Chronic Pain with a Wearable Wristband in Daily Life: A Pilot Study},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 17th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies - Volume 2: HEALTHINF},
year={2024},
pages={330-339},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0012315300003657},
isbn={978-989-758-688-0},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 17th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies - Volume 2: HEALTHINF
TI - Monitoring Pain in Patients with Chronic Pain with a Wearable Wristband in Daily Life: A Pilot Study
SN - 978-989-758-688-0
AU - Pattyn E.
AU - Vergaelen E.
AU - Lutin E.
AU - Van Stiphout R.
AU - Davidoff H.
AU - De Raedt W.
AU - Van Hoof C.
PY - 2024
SP - 330
EP - 339
DO - 10.5220/0012315300003657
PB - SciTePress