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This approach uses heuristic and machine learning algorithms in a hierarchical paradigm by first determining when the patient intends to sleep, then detecting sleep\u2013wake states along with scratching episodes, and lastly deriving objective measures of both sleep and scratch. Leveraging reference data collected in a sleep laboratory (NCT ID: NCT03490877), results show that sensor-derived measures of total sleep opportunity (TSO; time when patient intends to sleep) and total sleep time (TST) correlate well with reference polysomnography data (TSO:<jats:italic>r<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20090.72,<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u2009&lt;\u20090.001; TST:<jats:italic>r<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20090.76,<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u2009&lt;\u20090.001;<jats:italic>N<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u200932). Log transformed sensor derived measures of total scratching duration achieve strong agreement with reference annotated video recordings (<jats:italic>r<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20090.82,<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u2009&lt;\u20090.001;<jats:italic>N<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u200925). 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