Cloudy with a Chance of Pain: Engagement and Subsequent Attrition of Daily Data Entry in a Smartphone Pilot Study Tracking Weather, Disease Severity, and Physical Activity in Patients With Rheumatoid Arthritis.

Samuel Reade Karen Spencer Jamie C Sergeant Matthew Sperrin David M Schultz John Anisworth Rashmi Lakshminarayana Bruce Hellman Ben James John McBeth Caroline Sanders William Gregory Dixon

Published in: JMIR mHealth and uHealth (2017)

This successful pilot study has demonstrated that daily data collection using smartphones for health research is feasible and achievable with high levels of ongoing engagement over 2 months. This result opens important opportunities for large-scale longitudinal epidemiological research.

Keyphrases

physical activity
electronic health record
social media
big data
chronic pain
body mass index
neuropathic pain
cross sectional
data analysis
depressive symptoms
spinal cord