Trial reportInternational journal of environmental research and public health2020
Telemonitoring in Chronic Pain Management Using Smartphone Apps: A Randomized Controlled Trial Comparing Usual Assessment against App-Based Monitoring with and without Clinical Alarms.
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- Effects of Digital Health Interventions in Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain: Systematic Review and Bayesian Network Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials.Journal of medical Internet research · 2026Pooled it
- Impact of 25 Years of Mobile Health Tools for Pain Management in Patients With Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain: Systematic Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2024Pooled it
- mHealth Intervention for Improving Pain, Quality of Life, and Functional Disability in Patients With Chronic Pain: Systematic Review.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2023Pooled it
- Digital Health Technologies for Long-term Self-management of Osteoporosis: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2022Pooled it
- A scoping review on the feasibility and efficacy of mobile health applications in the management of breakthrough pain in cancer patients.BMC health services research · 2026Article
- Utilizing Mobile Health Technology to Enhance Brace Compliance: Feasibility and Effectiveness of an App-Based Monitoring System for Adolescents with Idiopathic Scoliosis.Journal of personalized medicine · 2025Article
- Reviewing the Advances in Remote Therapeutic and Physiological Monitoring and Applicability for Chronic Pain Management.Journal of pain research · 2025Review
- Transforming Chronic Pain Care Through Telemedicine: An Italian Perspective.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
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- Mobile Health App and Web Platform (eDOL) for Medical Follow-Up of Patients With Chronic Pain: Cohort Study Involving the French eDOL National Cohort After 1 Year.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2024Article
- GerenciaDOR™: development of digital technology by nurses for the assessment of patients with chronic pain.Revista brasileira de enfermagem · 2024Article
- Enhancing Internet-based psychotherapy for adults with emotional disorders using ecological momentary assessments and interventions: Study protocol of a feasibility trial with "My EMI, Emotional Well-being" app.Internet interventions · 2023Article
- Ecological momentary intervention to enhance emotion regulation in healthcare workers via smartphone: a randomized controlled trial protocol.BMC psychiatry · 2022Article
- eDOL mHealth App and Web Platform for Self-monitoring and Medical Follow-up of Patients With Chronic Pain: Observational Feasibility Study.JMIR formative research · 2022Article
- mHealth for the Monitoring of Brace Compliance and Wellbeing in Adolescents with Idiopathic Scoliosis: Study Protocol for a Feasibility Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Characterizing Breakthrough Cancer Pain Using Ecological Momentary Assessment with a Smartphone App: Feasibility and Clinical Findings.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Using Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) for Mental Health Prevention and Treatment.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- An Interactive Pain Application (MServ) Improves Postoperative Pain Management.Pain research & management · 2021Article
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7 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
backgroundThe 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.
methodsIn this randomized controlled trial, the usual monitoring method (i.e., onsite;
resultsWith the exception of anger, clinically significant changes (CSC; 30% improvement) were greater in the app + alarm condition across outcomes (e.g., 43.6% of patients experienced a CSC in depressed mood in the app + alarm condition, which occurred in less than 29% of patients in the other groups). The clinicians were willing to use the app, especially the version with alarms.
conclusionsThe use of apps may have some benefits in individual health care, especially when using alarms to tailor treatments.
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