App-based intervention among adolescents with persistent pain: a pilot feasibility randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Persistent pain in adolescence adversely affects everyday life and is an important public health problem. The primary aim was to determine the feasibility of an 8-week app-based self-management intervention to reduce pain and improve health-related quality of life in a community-based population of adolescents with persistent pain. A secondary aim was to explore differences in health outcomes between the intervention and control groups.

Methods

A sample of 73 adolescents aged 16-19 years with persistent pain from a community-based population were randomized into 2 groups. The intervention group received the Norwegian culturally adapted version of the iCanCope with Pain^TM app, which includes symptom tracking, goal setting, self-management strategies, and

SUBMITTER: Grasaas E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9327289 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature