Assessing the Quality and Usability of Smartphone Apps for Pain Self-Management

Reynoldson, Charmian; Stones, Catherine; Allsop, Matthew J; Gardner, Peter; Bennett, Mike; Closs, S. José; Jones, Rick; Knapp, Peter

doi:10.1111/pme.12327

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“…Die freie Verfügbarkeit von Apps im Gesundheitssektor ist jedoch als problematisch zu beschreiben, da die Bedürf-nisse der Nutzerinnen in der Regel außer Acht gelassen werden [17], die Evidenz in Bezug auf den Nutzen der App nicht ausreichend belegt ist [10], eine mangelnde Transparenz in Bezug auf den Schutz personenbezogener Daten vorliegt [7] und die Veröffentlichung von Apps meist Vorrang vor deren Qualität und Nutzen hat [14]. Die Anzahl der schmerzbezogenen Objectives.…”

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painApp – mobiles Schmerzmonitoring in der häuslichen Versorgung

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“…Determining and understating quality metrics of mobile applications industry is important to increase public awareness and competition for building high quality applications [11]. Metrics of TQM for mobile applicationsare a matter of debate but the benefits of implementation TQM methods are unlimited.…”

Section: Tqm Metrics For Mobile Applications and Cost Of Poor Qualitymentioning

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“…Usability has a very important role in mobile applications.Some of usability mobile applicationsaspects are: ease of use, interface design, learnability, data entry methods, frequency of use, existing of shortcuts, familiar in vocabulary and flow of information [1]. Not all applications that need you to pay for to download are helpful or good quality [11]. Until recent years, mobile applications have been evaluated subjectively with no specific process.…”

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TQM Metrics in Mobile Applications Industry

Alharbi¹,

Baatya²,

AbdAziz³

2017

International Advanced Research Journal in Science, Engineering

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Development of mobile applications is a young market and open broadly to organizations and individuals for competition. Software organizations utilize total quality management (TQM) strategies progressively to enhance their operations and procedures as a part of every single zone of their business. This study focuses on the Total Quality Management (TQM) properties in mobile applications industry. It aims to explore the relation between mobile application development and TQM. It identifies the metrics and attributes that help to gain successful implementation of TQM tools in field of mobile applications platform. The importance of this paper comes from the significance knowledge which provides an experience of implementing TQM in field of mobile applications industry with an overview of mobile applications. It concludes with clarifying benefits of applying TQM strategies, and how TQM philosophy could be conducted successfully.

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“…These systems are promising, but an authoritative review [12] found that these solutions do not suitably address the underlying psychological issues associated with CP. Moreover, further reviews on pain management apps unanimously identified that there is a lack of clinical engagement within the development cycle of systems and also state that efficacious claims are underpinned by little evidence [28,29]. Lastly, the majority of mobile health systems (mHealth) for chronic pain do not leverage the array of onboard sensors on smart-phones in order to provide passively acquired information [30,31].…”

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Feasibility and Acceptability of Mobile Phone–Based Auto-Personalized Physical Activity Recommendations for Chronic Pain Self-Management: Pilot Study on Adults (Preprint)

Rabbi¹,

Aung²,

Gay³

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Chronic Pain (CP) is defined as pain that persists despite the resolution of injury or pathology [1] and is attributed to changes in the central and peripheral nervous system resulting in amplified or uninhibited pain signals [2,3]. The persistency of pain signals over long periods of time can severely affect people both physically and psychologically.CP is closely linked with distress, can affect behavior, lead to a loss of productivity and daily functioning. Among people with CP, 86% report an inability to sleep well [4], 70% report trouble concentrating [4], 44-51% report anxiety [5], 88% express anger due to not seeing improvement [5]; CP related productivity related losses are 4.6 hour per week (5.5 hours/ week for chronic back pain) [6]. These adverse effects of CP can further result in depression and mood disorders; 40-50% CP population suffer from depressive disorders, while 77% report feeling depressed [5,7,8,9]. In terms of prevalence, the World Health Organization recognizes CP as a public health problem worldwide [10] (32% in low income countries and 30% in high income countries) [11,12]. In the US alone, 120 million adults are reported to be suffering from CP [13].Related costs have exceeded diabetes, cancer and heart disease in US [14] and CP is also related to substance abuse; 12 million (12 year or older) reported non-medical use of pain medication and overdose related deaths are rising every year [15].A particularly common form of CP is musculoskeletal chronic pain, which affects one in ten adults globally; 28.1% of the CP population has a musculoskeletal form.Musculoskeletal CP is a leading cause of disability, with 28% of people with chronic back pain reporting limited movement due to the condition [16]. Having said this, it is well understood that successful management in musculoskeletal CP is achievable with regular and sustained physical activity [10]. This is due to regular activity having the effect of protecting against muscle weakening and also inhibiting the neurophysiological mechanisms underlying the spread of pain [4]. Physical activity also has fewer side effects than drugs [17]. The National Institute of Health Care in the UK (NICE) recommends reducing the dependence on drugs and suggests exercise to be a core treatment for CP [10]. Despite these benefits, adherence to regular and sustained physical activity is very low [12] and the need to improve adherence to prescribed physiotherapies among individuals with musculoskeletal CP has been a longstanding problem [18]. This is especially challenging in self-managed settings where there is no care provider present to offer encouragement and respond to the individual's specific needs in real time [12]. This low adherence is principally due to the perceived onset of pain exacerbation due to physical activity which over time results in psychological barriers. Some barriers manifest at an affective level [5], typically fear and anxiety [19,20] which are also closely linked to more cognitive barriers such as negative beliefs [5] and catast...

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Assessing the Quality and Usability of Smartphone Apps for Pain Self-Management

Cited by 172 publications

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painApp – mobiles Schmerzmonitoring in der häuslichen Versorgung

painApp – mobiles Schmerzmonitoring in der häuslichen Versorgung

TQM Metrics in Mobile Applications Industry

Feasibility and Acceptability of Mobile Phone–Based Auto-Personalized Physical Activity Recommendations for Chronic Pain Self-Management: Pilot Study on Adults (Preprint)

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