Development of the Emoji Faces Pain Scale and Its Validation on Mobile Devices in Adult Surgery Patients: Longitudinal Observational Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Measuring pain on digital devices using classic unidimensional pain scales such as the visual analog scale (VAS), numerical rating scale (NRS), and faces pain scale (FPS) has been proven to be reliable and valid. Emoji are pictographs designed in colorful form following the Unicode standard. It could be more beneficial to use emoji as faces of FPS on digital devices because emoji can easily fit on most devices and emoji are open-source so no approval would be needed before use. With a concise and user-friendly design, the emoji faces pain scale (Emoji-FPS) might be more generalizable to a wider population and more preferred by digital device users.

Objective

This study was designed to develop an Emoji-FPS as well as to evaluate its reliability, validity, and prefe

SUBMITTER: Li L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10152337 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature