Cited by 50Sleep and related disordersContext-Aware Activity Recognition SystemsNon-Invasive Vital Sign Monitoring

Sleep quality prediction in caregivers using physiological signals

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Sadeghi, Reza, Banerjee, Tanvi, Hughes, Jennifer C., Lawhorne, Larry W.·2019·Computers in Biology and Medicine

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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.

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Authors
Sadeghi, R., Banerjee, T., Hughes, J. C., & Lawhorne, L. W.
Affiliations
Wright State University (US)
Corresponding author
Sadeghi, Reza
Venue
Computers in Biology and Medicine
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2019-07
Volume
110
Pages
276-288
ISSN
0010-4825 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2946005651
Cited by
50
References
97
Citations by year
2026: 3 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 8 · 2023: 11 · 2022: 8 · 2021: 6 · 2020: 9
FWCI
6.78
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Computers in Biology and Medicine (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • Journal of Bioresource Management (submittedVersion, cc-by)
Funders
National Institutes of Health
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Sleep and related disorders
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Context-Aware Activity Recognition Systems
  • Physical Sciences › Engineering › Biomedical Engineering › Non-Invasive Vital Sign Monitoring
Keywords
sleep quality prediction, dementia caregivers, caregiver stress, physiological signals, wearable sensors, heart rate variability, electrodermal activity, body movement, skin temperature, sleep efficiency, restfulness, clinical decision support systems, random forest classification
MeSH terms
Wearable Electronic Devices, Dementia, Female, Humans, Male, Monitoring, Physiologic, Sleep, Caregivers, Polysomnography

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