Chronic Pain and Language: A Topic Modelling Approach to Personal Pain Descriptions

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2109.00402v1
• Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2021 14:31:16 GMT
• Title: Chronic Pain and Language: A Topic Modelling Approach to Personal Pain Descriptions
• Authors: Diogo A. P. Nunes, David Martins de Matos, Joana Ferreira Gomes, Fani Neto
• Abstract summary: Chronic pain is recognized as a major health problem, with impacts not only at the economic, but also at the social, and individual levels. Being a private and subjective experience, it is impossible to externally and impartially experience, describe, and interpret chronic pain as a purely noxious stimulus. We propose and discuss a topic modelling approach to recognize patterns in verbal descriptions of chronic pain, and use these patterns to quantify and qualify experiences of pain.
• Score: 0.688204255655161
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Chronic pain is recognized as a major health problem, with impacts not only at the economic, but also at the social, and individual levels. Being a private and subjective experience, it is impossible to externally and impartially experience, describe, and interpret chronic pain as a purely noxious stimulus that would directly point to a causal agent and facilitate its mitigation, contrary to acute pain, the assessment of which is usually straightforward. Verbal communication is, thus, key to convey relevant information to health professionals that would otherwise not be accessible to external entities, namely, intrinsic qualities about the painful experience and the patient. We propose and discuss a topic modelling approach to recognize patterns in verbal descriptions of chronic pain, and use these patterns to quantify and qualify experiences of pain. Our approaches allow for the extraction of novel insights on chronic pain experiences from the obtained topic models and latent spaces. We argue that our results are clinically relevant for the assessment and management of chronic pain.

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