Measurement of Nocturnal Scratching in Patients with Pruritus Using a Smartwatch: Initial Clinical Studies with the Itch Tracker App
| Autor: | Michel Poncet, Toshiya Ebata, Akihiko Ikoma, Laurent Chantalat, Kimitoshi Takemura, Fabienne Mizzi, Didier LeClercq |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Time Factors Movement Dermatology Nocturnal Severity of Illness Index Eczema Area and Severity Index smartwatch Dermatitis Atopic 030207 dermatology & venereal diseases 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Predictive Value of Tests Healthy volunteers medicine Humans In patient itch Video monitoring skin and connective tissue diseases 030304 developmental biology 0303 health sciences integumentary system atopic dermatitis business.industry Pruritus Reproducibility of Results Actigraphy General Medicine Atopic dermatitis Middle Aged Scratching medicine.disease Mobile Applications Circadian Rhythm Case-Control Studies Computers Handheld RL1-803 Female scratching Sleep business actigraphy |
| Zdroj: | Acta Dermato-Venereologica, Vol 99, Iss 3, Pp 268-273 (2018) |
| ISSN: | 1651-2057 0001-5555 |
| Popis: | Three clinical studies were conducted to test a newly-developed app for smartwatches, which included an algorithm to measure nocturnal scratching using acceleration data. The first study in 5 patients with atopic dermatitis demonstrated high reliability of the app for measurement of scratching compared with video monitoring (positive predictive value 90.2 ± 6.6%, sensitivity 84.6 ± 10.2%, correlation of scratching duration per h r = 0.851-0.901, p < 0.001). The second study in 20 patients with atopic dermatitis and 10 healthy volunteers showed that total scratching duration in patients was significantly longer than in healthy volunteers and correlated positively with Eczema Area and Severity Index (EASI) scores. In the third study, conducted in an open-entry manner in which 201 evaluable participants measured nocturnal scratching, those who self-reported itch or pruritic diseases had a significantly longer duration of scratching than those who did not. In conclusion, this app has a high reliability and potential clinical usefulness for measurement of nocturnal scratching. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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