SOMAScience: A Novel Platform for Multidimensional, Longitudinal Pain Assessment.

ABSTRACT: Chronic pain is one of the most significant health issues in the United States, affecting more than 20% of the population. Despite its contribution to the increasing health crisis, reliable predictors of disease development, progression, or treatment outcomes are lacking. Self-report remains the most effective way to assess pain, but measures are often acquired in sparse settings over short time windows, limiting their predictive ability. In this paper, we present a new mobile health platform called SOMAScience. SOMAScience serves as an easy-to-use research tool for scientists and clinicians, enabling the collection of large-scale pain datasets in single- and multicenter studies by facilitating the acquisition, transfer, and analysis of longitudinal, multidimensional, self-report pain data

SUBMITTER: Gunsilius CZ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10818247 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature