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Establishing a Research Agenda on Mobile Health Technologies and Later-Life Pain Using an Evidence-Based Consensus Workshop Approach

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posted on 2023-08-30, 15:24 authored by Elaine Wetherington, Christopher Eccleston, Geri Gay, Rachael Gooberman-Hill, Patricia Schofield, Elizabeth Bacon, Wen Dombrowski, Robert Jamison, Max Rothman, Lauren Meador, Cara Kenien, Karl Pillemer, Corinna Löckenhoff, M. Carrington Reid
The rapid growth of mHealth devices holds substantial potential for improving care and care outcomes in all patient populations, including older adults with pain. However, existing research reflects a substantial gap in knowledge about how to design, evaluate, and disseminate devices to optimally address the many challenges associated with managing pain in older persons. Given these knowledge gaps, we sought to develop a set of practice-based research priorities to facilitate innovation in this field. We employed the Cornell Research-to-Practice Consensus Workshop Model, an evidence-based approach to generating research priorities. Sixty participants attended the conference, where stakeholder groups included older adults with pain and their caregivers, behavioral and social scientists, healthcare providers, pain experts, and specialists in mHealth and health policy. Participants generated 13 recommendations classified into two categories: 1) Implications for designing research on mHealth among older adults, e.g., conduct research on ways to enhance accessibility of mHealth tools among diverse groups of older adults with pain, expand research on mHealth sensing applications; and 2) Implementation of mHealth technology into practice and associated regulatory issues, e.g., promote research on ways to initiate/sustain patient behavior change, expand research on mHealth cyber-security and privacy issues. Perspective: This report highlights a set of research priorities in the area of mHealth and later-life pain derived from the joint perspectives of researchers and key stakeholder groups. Addressing these priorities could help to improve the quality of care delivered to older adults with pain.

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Refereed

  • Yes

Volume

19

Issue number

12

Page range

1416-1423

Publication title

Journal of Pain

ISSN

1528-8447

Publisher

Elsevier

File version

  • Accepted version

Language

  • eng

Legacy posted date

2018-06-27

Legacy creation date

2018-06-25

Legacy Faculty/School/Department

ARCHIVED Faculty of Health, Social Care & Education (until September 2018)

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