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    Identifying a cross-correlation between heart rate variability and skin conductance using pain intensity on healthy college students

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    Cruz-Molina, Genesis R.
    Abstract
    Chronic pain affects approximately 100 million Americans annually. Heart rate variability and skin conductance have been used separately as measures of pain intensity. Current methods of assessing pain intensity have some limitations as they completely rely on subjective pain scales, require the patient's cooperation, and completely fail in unconscious patients. Therefore, there is a need for an objective method of measuring pain to improve the quality of pain management. Understanding the relationship between heart rate variability and skin conductance can be beneficial for non-pharmacological treatments of pain such as biofeedback training, as combining both signals can be used to create a more powerful tool to measure pain. To identify a relationship between skin conductance and heart rate variability, we propose a cross-correlation analysis. Such approach necessitates collection of baseline data on healthy college students, administration of a thermal stimuli, and collection of data during and after the stimuli.
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    http://hdl.handle.net/10342/6908
    Subject
     heart rate variability; continuous decomposition analysis; cross-correlation 
    Date
    2018-05-18
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    Cruz-Molina, Genesis R.. (May 2018). Identifying a cross-correlation between heart rate variability and skin conductance using pain intensity on healthy college students (Master's Thesis, East Carolina University). Retrieved from the Scholarship. (http://hdl.handle.net/10342/6908.)

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    Cruz-Molina, Genesis R.. Identifying a cross-correlation between heart rate variability and skin conductance using pain intensity on healthy college students. Master's Thesis. East Carolina University, May 2018. The Scholarship. http://hdl.handle.net/10342/6908. September 22, 2023.
    Chicago:
    Cruz-Molina, Genesis R., “Identifying a cross-correlation between heart rate variability and skin conductance using pain intensity on healthy college students” (Master's Thesis., East Carolina University, May 2018).
    AMA:
    Cruz-Molina, Genesis R.. Identifying a cross-correlation between heart rate variability and skin conductance using pain intensity on healthy college students [Master's Thesis]. Greenville, NC: East Carolina University; May 2018.
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    East Carolina University

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