Painometer

Features Painometer

Painometer is a smartphone app that helps users to assess momentary pain intensity.
It allows to measure, store, display graphically and send a set of measures of pain intensity.
It includes four well-validated pain intensity scales: the Faces Pain Scale-Revised (FPS-R), the Numerical Rating Scale (NS), the Coloured Analogue Scale (CAS), and the Visual Analogue Scale (VAS).
Settings and instructions are available in several languages: Catalan, Spanish, French, English and Portuguese.This application has been winner of mHealth - Mobile World Capital Barcelona.This application has been developed and tested by the Unit for the Study and Treatment of Pain - ALGOS, Rovira i Virgili University.
More information at: http://algos-dpsico.urv.cat/en/painometerPainometer is patient and health professional oriented.
The use of Painometer does not replace doctor-patient relationship.The contents have been developed by a team of psychologists specialized in the assessment and treatment of pain.
All the research group is linked to Universitat Rovira i Virgili (Dr.
Jordi Miró, Rocío de la Vega, Elena Castarlenas, Elizabeth Sánchez-Rodríguez).
The developers are Computer Engineers (Roman Roset) and technical engineers in telecommunications, specializing in Telematics (Pere Llorens-Vernet).
The creators of Painometer v are committed to reviewing the content and functionality of the application and to improve it on the basis of the available scientific and technical evidence.Papers about Painometer:[1] de la Vega R, Roset R, Castarlenas E, Sánchez-Rodríguez E, Solé E, Miró J.
Development and Testing of Painometer: A Smartphone App to Assess Pain Intensity.
J Pain 2014;15:1001–7.
doi:10.1016/j.jpain.2014.04.009.[2] Castarlenas E, Sánchez-Rodríguez E, Vega R de la, Roset R, Miró J.
Agreement Between Verbal and Electronic Versions of the Numerical Rating Scale (NRS-11) when Used to Assess Pain Intensity in Adolescents.
Clin J Pain 2015;31:229–34.
doi:10.1097/AJP.0000000000000104.[3] Sánchez-Rodríguez E, de la Vega R, Castarlenas E, Roset R, Miró J.
AN APP for the Assessment of Pain Intensity: Validity Properties and Agreement of Pain Reports When Used with Young People.
Pain Med 2015;16:1982–92.
doi:10.1111/pme.12859.[4] Sanchez-Rodriguez E, Castarlenas E, de la Vega R, Roset R, Miro J.
On the electronic measurement of pain intensity: Can we use different pain intensity scales interchangeably?
J Health Psychol 2016.
doi:10.1177/1359105316633284.About the use of FPS-R Scale:The Faces Pain Scale-Revised has been reproduced with permission of the International Association for the Study of Pain® (IASP).Original source: Hicks CL, von Baeyer CL, Spafford P, van Korlaar I, Goodenough B.
Faces Pain Scale-Revised: Toward a Common Metric in Pediatric Pain Measurement.
PAIN® 2001; 93:173-183Faces Pain Scale - Revised (FPS-R), copyright ©2001, International Association for the Study of Pain, used by permission.
www.iasp-pain.org/FPSRAbout the use of the Coloured Analogue Scale:The Coloured Analogue Scale has been reproduced with permission of the authors.Original source: McGrath PA, Seifert CE, Speechley KN, Booth JC, Stitt L, Gibson MC.
A new analogue scale for assessing children’s pain: an initial validation study.
PAIN® 1996; 64:435–43