Online paediatric chronic pain management: assessing the needs of UK adolescents and parents, using a cross-sectional survey.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Adolescent chronic pain is prevalent, and interdisciplinary treatment is recommended. Although it is well known that technology is a key part of adolescents' daily lives, there have not been any online, interdisciplinary interventions developed for adolescents with chronic pain in a UK healthcare context. Little is known about how adolescents currently use online resources to manage chronic pain, or what guidance they seek.

Methods

Ninety-five participants from the community answered this mixed-methods, online survey (adolescent n = 54, parent n = 41), which assessed the needs of UK-based adolescents for a new online chronic pain management resource.

Results

Findings indicated that, at the time of the survey, adolescents frequently used social media platfor

SUBMITTER: Hurley-Wallace A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8339947 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature