The Case for the Patient-Centric Development of Novel Digital Sleep Assessment Tools in Major Depressive Disorder
Background: Depression imposes a major burden on public health as the leading cause of disability worldwide. Sleep disturbance is a core symptom of depression that affects the vast majority of patients. Nonetheless, it is frequently not resolved by depression treatment and may even be worsened throu...
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| author | Nele Peerenboom Suvekshya Aryal Jennifer M. Blankenship Tracy Swibas Yaya Zhai Ieuan Clay Kate Lyden |
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| description | Background: Depression imposes a major burden on public health as the leading cause of disability worldwide. Sleep disturbance is a core symptom of depression that affects the vast majority of patients. Nonetheless, it is frequently not resolved by depression treatment and may even be worsened through some pharmaceutical interventions. Disturbed sleep negatively impact patients’ quality of life, and persistent sleep disturbance increases the risk of recurrence, relapse, and even suicide. However, the development of novel treatments that might improve sleep problems is hindered by the lack of reliable low-burden objective measures that can adequately assess disturbed sleep in this population. Summary: Developing improved digital measurement tools that are fit for use in clinical trials for major depressive disorder could promote the inclusion of sleep as a focus for treatment, clinical drug development, and research. This perspective piece explores the path toward the development of novel digital measures, reviews the existing evidence on the meaningfulness of sleep in depression, and summarizes existing methods of sleep assessments, including the use of digital health technologies. Key Messages: Our objective was to make a clear call to action and path forward for the qualification of new digital outcome measures which would enable assessment of sleep disturbance as an aspect of health that truly matters to patients, promoting sleep as an important outcome for clinical development, and ultimately ensure that disturbed sleep will not remain the forgotten symptom of depression. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-7d7404c9c3f4451db2ca182f156429942023-10-06T13:15:02ZengKarger PublishersDigital Biomarkers2504-110X2023-09-017112413110.1159/000533523533523The Case for the Patient-Centric Development of Novel Digital Sleep Assessment Tools in Major Depressive DisorderNele Peerenboom0Suvekshya Aryal1Jennifer M. Blankenship2Tracy Swibas3Yaya Zhai4Ieuan Clay5Kate Lyden6Vivosense Inc., Newport Coast, CA, USAVivosense Inc., Newport Coast, CA, USAVivosense Inc., Newport Coast, CA, USAVivosense Inc., Newport Coast, CA, USAVivosense Inc., Newport Coast, CA, USAVivosense Inc., Newport Coast, CA, USAVivosense Inc., Newport Coast, CA, USABackground: Depression imposes a major burden on public health as the leading cause of disability worldwide. Sleep disturbance is a core symptom of depression that affects the vast majority of patients. Nonetheless, it is frequently not resolved by depression treatment and may even be worsened through some pharmaceutical interventions. Disturbed sleep negatively impact patients’ quality of life, and persistent sleep disturbance increases the risk of recurrence, relapse, and even suicide. However, the development of novel treatments that might improve sleep problems is hindered by the lack of reliable low-burden objective measures that can adequately assess disturbed sleep in this population. Summary: Developing improved digital measurement tools that are fit for use in clinical trials for major depressive disorder could promote the inclusion of sleep as a focus for treatment, clinical drug development, and research. This perspective piece explores the path toward the development of novel digital measures, reviews the existing evidence on the meaningfulness of sleep in depression, and summarizes existing methods of sleep assessments, including the use of digital health technologies. Key Messages: Our objective was to make a clear call to action and path forward for the qualification of new digital outcome measures which would enable assessment of sleep disturbance as an aspect of health that truly matters to patients, promoting sleep as an important outcome for clinical development, and ultimately ensure that disturbed sleep will not remain the forgotten symptom of depression.https://beta.karger.com/Article/FullText/533523digital measuresdigital healthactigraphydepressionmajor depressive disordersleepinsomnia |
| spellingShingle | Nele Peerenboom Suvekshya Aryal Jennifer M. Blankenship Tracy Swibas Yaya Zhai Ieuan Clay Kate Lyden The Case for the Patient-Centric Development of Novel Digital Sleep Assessment Tools in Major Depressive Disorder Digital Biomarkers digital measures digital health actigraphy depression major depressive disorder sleep insomnia |
| title | The Case for the Patient-Centric Development of Novel Digital Sleep Assessment Tools in Major Depressive Disorder |
| title_full | The Case for the Patient-Centric Development of Novel Digital Sleep Assessment Tools in Major Depressive Disorder |
| title_fullStr | The Case for the Patient-Centric Development of Novel Digital Sleep Assessment Tools in Major Depressive Disorder |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Case for the Patient-Centric Development of Novel Digital Sleep Assessment Tools in Major Depressive Disorder |
| title_short | The Case for the Patient-Centric Development of Novel Digital Sleep Assessment Tools in Major Depressive Disorder |
| title_sort | case for the patient centric development of novel digital sleep assessment tools in major depressive disorder |
| topic | digital measures digital health actigraphy depression major depressive disorder sleep insomnia |
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