Objective: to discuss pros and cons of objective measurement of fatigue with actigraphy
Starting point: total activity counts during daytime as a very rough estimate of physical activity; activity counts during the first 3 hours after awakening; percentage of high activity during the daytime, ...
I invite colleagues working in the field to join the discussion, since methodology appears to be heterogeneous when looking at recent publications.
kind regards,
Stefan Seidel
Different activity metrics can be estimated based on validated methods.
These metrics may be useful to measure movement reduction in patients complaining fatigue. However, fatigue is a complex structure which includes movement reduction as one among many of its features.
You may have a look at these papers for a good resumee of actigraphic activity metrics:
https://academic.oup.com/annweh/article/64/4/350/5735350
https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-015-1976-y
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