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Sleep quality prediction in caregivers using physiological signals
Computers in Biology and Medicine
  • Reza Sadeghi, Wright State University - Main Campus
  • Tanvi Banerjee, Wright State University - Main Campus
  • Jennifer C. Hughes, Wright State University - Main Campus
  • Larry W. Lawhorne, Wright State University - Main Campus
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
7-1-2019
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Abstract

© 2019 Elsevier Ltd Most caregivers of people with dementia (CPWD) experience a high degree of stress due to the demands of providing care, especially when addressing unpredictable behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia. Such challenging responsibilities make caregivers susceptible to poor sleep quality with detrimental effects on their overall health. Hence, monitoring caregivers’ sleep quality can provide important CPWD stress assessment. Most current sleep studies are based on polysomnography, which is expensive and potentially disrupts the caregiving routine. To address these issues, we propose a clinical decision support system to predict sleep quality based on trends of physiological signals in the deep sleep stage. This system utilizes four raw physiological signals using a wearable device (E4 wristband): heart rate variability, electrodermal activity, body movement, and skin temperature. To evaluate the performance of the proposed method, analyses were conducted on a two-week period of sleep monitored on eight CPWD. The best performance is achieved using the random forest classifier with an accuracy of 75% for sleep quality, and 73% for restfulness, respectively. We found that the most important features to detect these measures are sleep efficiency (ratio of amount of time asleep to the amount of time in bed) and skin temperature. The results from our sleep analysis system demonstrate the capability of using wearable sensors to measure sleep quality and restfulness in CPWD.

DOI
10.1016/j.compbiomed.2019.05.010
Citation Information
Reza Sadeghi, Tanvi Banerjee, Jennifer C. Hughes and Larry W. Lawhorne. "Sleep quality prediction in caregivers using physiological signals" Computers in Biology and Medicine Vol. 110 (2019) p. 276 - 288 ISSN: 00104825
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/tanvi-banerjee/46/