ArticleFrontiers in psychology2021
Can the Vocal Expression of Intellectually Disabled Individuals Be Used as a Pain Indicator? Initial Findings Supporting a Possible Novice Assessment Method.
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- Current state of research and future developments of artificial intelligence in pain diagnosis and treatment.Journal of translational medicine · 2026Review
- The recognition and assessment of pain in people with profound intellectual disabilities by nurses: An appreciative inquiry.Journal of intellectual disabilities : JOID · 2026Article
- What can speech tell us about pain?Pain reports · 2025Article
- Leveraging voice biomarkers to quantify chronic pain: a rapid review.Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Associations of Voice Metrics with Postural Function in Parkinson's Disease.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- A Review of Voice-Based Pain Detection in Adults Using Artificial Intelligence.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Pain research and children and adolescents with severe intellectual disability: ethical challenges and imperatives.The Lancet. Child & adolescent health · 2023Review
- Diagnosing Pain in Individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities: Current State and Novel Technological Solutions.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
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Abstract
Pain is difficult to assess in non-verbal populations such as individuals with intellectual and developmental disability (IDD). Due to scarce research in this area, pain assessment for individuals with IDD is still lacking, leading to maltreatment. To improve medical care for individuals with IDD, immediate, reliable, easy to use pain detection methods should be developed. The goal of this preliminary study was to examine the sensitivity of acoustic features of vocal expressions in identifying pain for adults with IDD, assessing their feasibility as a pain detection indicator for those individuals. Such unique pain related vocal characteristics may be used to develop objective pain detection means. Adults with severe-profound IDD level (
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