Defining the Digital Measurement of Scratching During Sleep or Nocturnal Scratching: Review of the Literature.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Digital sensing solutions represent a convenient, objective, relatively inexpensive method that could be leveraged for assessing symptoms of various health conditions. Recent progress in the capabilities of digital sensing products has targeted the measurement of scratching during sleep, traditionally referred to as nocturnal scratching, in patients with atopic dermatitis or other skin conditions. Many solutions measuring nocturnal scratch have been developed; however, a lack of efforts toward standardization of the measure's definition and contextualization of scratching during sleep hampers the ability to compare different technologies for this purpose.

Objective

We aimed to address this gap and bring forth unified measurement definitions for nocturnal scratch.<

SUBMITTER: Ke Wang W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10155092 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature