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Toward Gamified Pain Management Apps: Mobile Application Rating Scale-Based Quality Assessment of Pain-Mentor's First Prototype Through an Expert Study.

Alexandra HoffmannCorinna Anna ChristmannGregor ZolynskiGabriele Bleser
Published in: JMIR formative research (2020)
The experts rated Pain-Mentor to be of excellent quality. It can be concluded that experts perceived the use of gamification in this pain management app in a positive manner. This showed that combining pain management with gamification did not negatively affect the app's integrity. This study was therefore a promising first step in the development of Pain-Mentor.
Keyphrases
  • pain management
  • chronic pain
  • depressive symptoms
  • social support
  • spinal cord injury
  • spinal cord
  • neuropathic pain
  • postoperative pain