Commercially Available Mobile Phone Headache Diary Apps: A Systematic Review

Hundert, Amos; Huguet, Anna; McGrath, Patrick J.; Stinson, Jennifer; Wheaton, Mike

doi:10.2196/mhealth.3452

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“…Moreover, patients with headache disorders (Hundert, Huguet, McGrath, Stinson, & Wheaton, 2014) prefer to use mobile applications, also in the prevention and management of mental disorders (Proudfoot, 2013), mobile phones are used. So far in these areas, mobile applications have been developed and tested; and valuable and acceptable results have been reached.…”

Section: Literature Review and Hypothesesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Mobile Technology Applications in the Healthcare Industry for Disease Management and Wellness

Kalem

Turhan

2015

Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences

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Technology is an unavoidable fact of today's life. Attractive advantages of wireless technology accelerated the rapid development of mobile applications. With the increase of the usage of mobile devices in the recent years, new solutions come to mind including mobile technologies to fulfill requirements or suggest better solutions in the vast area of medical informatics to the existing ones. Augmentation in the area of wireless technology positively affects the medical applications. In the healthcare industry, mobile applications provide better personalized health care, disease management and services to patients and their relatives, as well as a better and flexible way of communicating with physicians, patients and medical suppliers. It is obvious that the applications using mobile technologies has the potential to bring better conditions both for the patients for their disease management and for the humanity for checking their self wellness. In this paper, the current mobile technology utilized in healthcare such as relapse prevention in schizophrenia, aged people's care and wellness, diagnosis and management of attentiondeficit etc. is reviewed in detail outlining the current mobile technologies and wireless revolution of today and examining some of the outstanding applications using these technologies in the clinical area. The results of this study can provide clues to researchers to further the mobile technology in healthcare.

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Section: Literature Review and Hypothesesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Another area is in headache disorders (Hundert, Huguet, McGrath, Stinson, & Wheaton, 2014) where mobile technologies are used by the patients very commonly. Mobile applications help patients by creating a headache diary and health care professionals try to name the type of the headache.…”

Section: Itareps (Information Technology Aided Relapse Prevention Promentioning

confidence: 99%

Mobile Technology Applications in the Healthcare Industry for Disease Management and Wellness

Kalem

Turhan

2015

Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences

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“…However, the five apps that are unusable due to registration and crashing issues are all free apps, and four apps offering high-quality services (our top 4 apps) are all paid apps; these apps are Conclusions drawn from previous studies [12,13,22,23,[14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21] revealed a wide variation in the quality of pain management apps (functions, interface design, and usability) available in the app stores. We found that there is still a great deal of quality variation in the 15 pain apps that were updated or released within the last year.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…At least 11 review articles have been published evaluating pain management apps since 2011 [13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23]. Among them, 3 studies deal with specific forms of pain such as low back pain [21], postoperative pain [24], and pediatric pain [18].…”

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confidence: 99%

Mobile Applications for Pain Management: Scoping Review (Preprint)

Zhao¹,

Yoo²,

Lancey³

2018

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Background: Pain is the most common and distressing symptom for patients. 30% of adults in the United States suffer from chronic pain. The total cost of pain is much higher than the total costs of heart disease, cancer, and diabetes. The lack of health informatics tools to support acute and chronic pain management contributes to the chronic pain and opioid abuse crises. Objective: The purpose of this study was to systematically appraise the content and functionality of mobile pain management apps. Apps reviewed in this study included a pain diary feature, and we searched for apps intended for clinical usage that support (1) crossplatform compatibility, (2) clinician access to graphical pain data visualization, (3) HIPAA compliance, and (4) the validated PEG (Pain Intensity, Enjoyment of life, General activity) survey tool for primary care physicians' pain management. Methods: The Apple App Store and the Google Play Store were searched to identify pain management apps on 2/20/2018. The inclusion criteria were as follows: (1) that apps include a pain diary function allowing users to record pain episodes, (2) are available in either Apple App Store or Google Play Store, and (3) are available in the English language. We excluded apps if they were limited to only specific forms of pain or specific diseases. Results: A total of 36 apps met the inclusion criteria. Most of the apps served as pain diary tools to record the key characteristics of pain. The apps displayed many quality and usabil-

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“…It is also increasing in popularity within the field of headache care and research. In particular, phone-based headache diaries are frequently used [7]. However, there is a potential for extending this mobile technology into the preventive treatment of headache disorders, such as migraine.…”

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confidence: 99%