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Telemonitoring in chronic pain management using smartphone apps: a randomized controlled trial comparing usual assessment against app-based monitoring with and without clinical alarms

Azucena García-palaciosAzucena García-palaciosJavier MedelDiana CastillaÁNgela MesasIrene ZaragozáAnna ServerCarlos Suso-ribera

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medicine.medical_specialtyHealth Toxicology and Mutagenesismedia_common.quotation_subjectPsychological interventionlcsh:MedicineAngerArticlelaw.invention03 medical and health sciences0302 clinical medicineRandomized controlled triallawmental disordersmedicineHumansPain Management030212 general & internal medicinemHealthSalut mentalmedia_commonClinical eventsbusiness.industrylcsh:RPublic Health Environmental and Occupational HealthChronic painecological momentary assessmenttelemonitoringmedicine.diseaseMobile Applicationssmartphone appClinical AlarmsSmartphone apprandomized controlled trialPhysical therapyAnxietySmartphonemedicine.symptomChronic Painbusinesschronic pain030217 neurology & neurosurgery

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Background. The usefulness of mHealth in helping to target face-to-face interventions for chronic pain more effectively remains unclear. In the present study, we aim to test whether the Pain Monitor mobile phone application (app) is well accepted by clinicians, and can help improve existent medical treatments for patients with chronic musculoskeletal pain. Regarding this last goal, we compared three treatment conditions, namely usual treatment, usual treatment with an app without alarms and usual treatment with an app with alarms. All treatments lasted one month. The three treatments were compared for all outcomes, i.e., pain severity and interference, fatigue, depressed mood, anxiety and anger. Methods. In this randomized controlled trial, the usual monitoring method (i.e., onsite

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2020-09-09
10.3390/ijerph17186568https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17186568