Identifying Weekly Trajectories of Pain Severity Using Daily Data From an mHealth Study: Cluster Analysis.

Claire L Little David M Schultz Thomas A House William Gregory Dixon John McBeth

Published in: JMIR mHealth and uHealth (2024)

The clusters of pain severity identified in this study provide a parsimonious description of the weekly experiences of people with chronic pain. These clusters could be used for future study of between-cluster movement and within-cluster variability to develop accurate and stakeholder-informed pain-forecasting tools.

Keyphrases

chronic pain
pain management
physical activity
mental health
spinal cord injury
mass spectrometry
high resolution
electronic health record