Electronic Momentary Assessment in Chronic Pain II: Pain and Psychological Pain Responses as Predictors of Pain Disability

Sorbi, Marjolijn J.; Peters, Madelon L.; Kruise, D.A.; Maas, Cora J. M.; Kerssens, J.J.; Verhaak, Peter; Bensing, J.M.

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“…[20][21][22] Excessive avoidance can lead to decreased musculoskeletal functioning and physical deconditioning, resulting in more intense pain upon movement. 19 Another interesting finding of this study was that patients who reported pain as more central to their life experienced higher levels of psychological distress. Psychological distress is considered to be one of the most important indicators of adjustment to pain.…”

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confidence: 67%

Applying Centrality of Event to Persistent Pain: A Preliminary View

Perri

Keefe

2008

The Journal of Pain

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Applying Centrality of Event to Persistent Pain: A Preliminary View

Perri

Keefe

2008

The Journal of Pain

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“…The monitoring feature of ODA is based on the electronic diary method of experience sampling [2,3] or ecological momentary assessment [4-6], employed in health psychology research [7-9] to reliably measure symptoms [10-12], momentary mood [13], or other fluctuating states in near real-time. PDAs are programmed to produce randomized calls, which prompt participants to answer diary items with the PDA keyboard or soft-touch screen.…”

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Mobile Web-Based Monitoring and Coaching: Feasibility in Chronic Migraine

Sorbi¹,

Mak²,

Houtveen³

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BackgroundThe Internet can facilitate diary monitoring (experience sampling, ecological momentary assessment) and behavioral coaching. Online digital assistance (ODA) is a generic tool for mobile Web-based use, intended as an adjuvant to face-to-face or Internet-based cognitive behavioral treatment. A current ODA application was designed to support home-based training of behavioral attack prevention in chronic migraine, focusing on the identification of attack precursors and the support of preventive health behaviour.ObjectiveThe aim was to establish feasibility of the ODA approach in terms of technical problems and participant compliance, and ODA acceptability on the basis of ratings of user-friendliness, potential burden, and perceived support of the training for behavioral attack prevention in migraine.MethodsODA combines mobile electronic diary monitoring with direct human online coaching of health behavior according to the information from the diary. The diary contains three parts covering the following: (1) migraine headache and medication use, (2) attack precursors, and (3) self-relaxation and other preventive behavior; in addition, menstruation (assessed in the evening diary) and disturbed sleep (assessed in the morning diary) is monitored. The pilot study consisted of two runs conducted with a total of five women with chronic migraine without aura. ODA was tested for 8.5 days (range 4-12 days) per participant. The first test run with three participants tested 4-5 diary prompts per day. The second run with another three participants (including one subject who participated in both runs) tested a reduced prompting scheme (2-3 prompts per day) and minor adaptations to the diary. Online coaching was executed twice daily on workdays.ResultsODA feasibility was established on the basis of acceptable data loss (1.2% due to the personal digital assistant; 5.6% due to failing Internet transmission) and good participant compliance (86.8% in the second run). Run 1 revealed some annoyance with the number of prompts per day. Overall ODA acceptability was evident by the positive participant responses concerning user-friendliness, absence of burden, and perceived support of migraine attack prevention. The software was adapted to further increase the flexibility of the application.ConclusionsODA is feasible and well accepted. Tolerability is a sensitive issue, and the balance between benefit and burden must be considered with care. ODA offers a generic tool to combine mobile coaching with diary monitoring,independently of time and space. ODA effects on improvement of migraine remain to be established.

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“…2 Online monitoring is grafted on the Experience Sampling Method (ESM) 18,19 or Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA), 21,24 which is used to measure fluctuating states, behaviors, and cognitions reliably in real life. 25,26 In ESM/EMA, participants are prompted at random moments to complete an electronic diary.…”

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“…The ODA monitoring feature builds on previous experience with electronic diaries in migraine and chronic pain and was used to support the timely detection of attack precursors (the first goal of BT). [16][17][18] The ODA coaching feature was grafted on the possibility of collecting electronic diaries wirelessly and safely directly upon completion, and return advice through the Internet that was tailored to the patient's momentary state. The latter was employed to reinforce preventive actions against attack occurrence (the second BT goal).…”

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Utility and Preliminary Effects of Online Digital Assistance (ODA) for Behavioral Attack Prevention in Migraine

Kleiboer

Sorbi

Mérelle

et al. 2009

Telemedicine and e-Health

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There were two objectives of this research. First was to establish the utility of online digital assistance (ODA), a generic software-based method designed to support behavioral training (BT) in migraine. The second was to test whether ODA can produce additional effects in BT. Utility (feasibility and acceptability) was based on 44 patients with migraine who received ODA as an adjuvant to BT delivered to small groups by lay trainers with migraine at home. ODA tracking files were used to determine ODA feasibility. Acceptability was assessed by a structured interview. To examine ODA effects, 31 patients with migraine who received ODA during BT and at 6 months' follow-up were compared with a matched group of 31 participants who received BT only. Feasibility was established based on minimal technical problems, good compliance, and successful execution of ODA. Acceptability was confirmed by positive participant responses concerning usefulness, supportiveness, and low burden. Finally, ODA participants did not mark better improvements considering migraine attack frequency, internal control, and migraine-specific quality of life compared to those that underwent BT only. ODA is feasible, well-accepted, and perceived to support self-care in 44 patients with migraine. The method is currently designed for these patients, but it can be easily adapted for other health settings. Whether ODA can induce higher gains remains to be established.

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Electronic Momentary Assessment in Chronic Pain II: Pain and Psychological Pain Responses as Predictors of Pain Disability

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References 65 publications

Applying Centrality of Event to Persistent Pain: A Preliminary View

Applying Centrality of Event to Persistent Pain: A Preliminary View

Mobile Web-Based Monitoring and Coaching: Feasibility in Chronic Migraine

Utility and Preliminary Effects of Online Digital Assistance (ODA) for Behavioral Attack Prevention in Migraine

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