Forecasting Seizures Using Intelligent Wearable Technology for Health Tracking
Start Date
4/11/2024
Completion Date
6/1/2026
Summary
The goal of this interventional study is to develop a personalized seizure risk forecast tool in people with epilepsy. The main questions it aims to answer are: * can we develop a future seizure probabilities tool that is more accurate than chance based on the pattern and frequency of previous generalized tonic-clonic seizure (GTCS) events, as well as changes in physiological and behavioral variables. * does this tool improve the lives of people with epilepsy? Researchers will compare a group that does not have access to the forecast tool to a group that does and see if it is accurate and if people with it report that it improved their quality of life.
Detailed Description
The primary goal of the study is to demonstrate the accuracy of SeizureWise in predicting the timing of future convulsive seizures using data collected by the wearable EmbracePlus device and data provided by patients with GTCS monitored in outpatient settings. The secondary goals are: to assess the clinical impact of SeizureWise on quality of life (QoL), psychological health indicators, and economic and clinical outcomes to assess the clinical impact of visualizing behavioral and physiologic data without forecasting predictions on quality of life (QoL), psychological health indicators, and economic and clinical outcomes A non-significant risk, open-label, prospective, randomized clinical investigation designed to evaluate the ability of SeizureWise to forecast GTCS occurrence and to assess impact on QoL and seizure management outcomes. The study will include two phases during which an algorithm based on sensor derived physiological measures is developed and tested with output blinded to the participant. In a final phase participants will be randomized to two arms, one of which will have access to a seizure forecasting risk score.
Eligibility Criteria
Age Range: 6 years to No maximum
Interventions
SeizureWise algorithm
Multi-day Visualizations
Conditions
Locations
Empatica
Boston, Massachusetts 02111
United States