ArticleNPJ digital medicine2019
How the weather affects the pain of citizen scientists using a smartphone app.
Article in NPJ digital medicine, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 47 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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47 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- Digital Information Exchange Between the Public and Researchers in Health Studies: Scoping Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Article
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- Weathering the Pain: Ambient Temperature's Role in Chronic Pain Syndromes.Current pain and headache reports · 2025Review
- Using Natural Language Processing and Social Media Data to Understand the Lived Experience of People with Fibromyalgia.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Meeting report: patient and caregiver recommendations for a mobile health application for paediatric systemic lupus erythematosus.Lupus science & medicine · 2024Article
- Identifying Weekly Trajectories of Pain Severity Using Daily Data From an mHealth Study: Cluster Analysis.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2024Article
- Classifying Self-Reported Rheumatoid Arthritis Flares Using Daily Patient-Generated Data From a Smartphone App: Exploratory Analysis Applying Machine Learning Approaches.JMIR formative research · 2024Article
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Abstract
Patients with chronic pain commonly believe their pain is related to the weather. Scientific evidence to support their beliefs is inconclusive, in part due to difficulties in getting a large dataset of patients frequently recording their pain symptoms during a variety of weather conditions. Smartphones allow the opportunity to collect data to overcome these difficulties. Our study
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