ReviewEpilepsia2025
Users' perspectives and preferences on using wearables in epilepsy: A critical review.
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11 citing papers in PubMed.
- Temporal Divergence of True and False Alarms in Pediatric Nocturnal Seizure Monitoring.Annals of clinical and translational neurology · 2026Article
- Sounding the Alarm: Accuracy of Seizure Detection Devices.Epilepsy currents · 2026Article
- Pulse-based photoplethysmography quality assessment improves wearable seizure detection performance.Epilepsia open · 2026Article
- An edge-AI enabled wearable platform for real-time epileptic seizure detection with geolocated alerting.BMC biomedical engineering · 2026Article
- Position Statement on Noninvasive Seizure Detection/Alerting Devices: A Joint Statement of the American Epilepsy Society, the Epilepsy Foundation, and the Danny Did Foundation.Epilepsy currents · 2026Review
- Physiological Monitoring Applications of Wearable Multimodal Fusion Systems Based on ECG and PPG: A Comprehensive Review.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Single-channel EEG-based seizure prediction using deep learning.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- EEG glasses for real-time brain electrical activity monitoring.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Clinical utility of an ambulatory absence seizure detection system.Epilepsia open · 2025Article
- Detecting Diverse Seizure Types with Wrist-Worn Wearable Devices: A Comparison of Machine Learning Approaches.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Users' perspectives and preferences on using wearables in epilepsy: A critical review.Epilepsia · 2025Review
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Abstract
Seizure detection devices (SDDs) offer promising technological advancements in epilepsy management, providing real-time seizure monitoring and alerts for patients and caregivers. This critical review explores user perspectives and experiences with SDDs to better understand factors influencing their adoption and sustained use. An electronic literature search identified 34 relevant studies addressing common themes such as usability, motivation, comfort, accuracy, barriers, and the financial burden of these devices. Usability emerged as the most frequently discussed factor, with patients and caregivers also emphasizing the importance of ease of use, long battery life, and waterproof design. Although validated devices showed high user satisfaction, technical challenges, false negatives, and false positives need much improvement. Motivation to use SDDs was driven by enhanced safety, symptom tracking, and health care professional recommendations. Comfort and wearability were also critical aspects, with users favoring lightweight, breathable, and discreet designs for long-term wear. Users reported the devices as "comfortable" and preferring wrist or arm-worn devices for the long term. Accuracy-particularly minimizing false positives and false negatives-was a priority for users. Barriers to adoption included device cost, limited insurance reimbursement, discomfort, and concerns about data privacy. Despite these challenges, many users were willing to use SDDs. Recommendations from health care professionals significantly increased user motivation. This review highlights the need for SDD designs that address user concerns regarding usability, comfort, looks, and accuracy, while also reducing financial and technical barriers. Enhancing clinical involvement and tailoring devices to specific patient needs may be crucial to promoting wider SDD adoption. Further research is needed to evaluate the impact of SDDs on quality of life and to explore ways to mitigate challenges in long-term use.
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