Compliance was generally high , and positively associated with shorter diaries , age , having a user 's manual , financial compensation and using an alarm .
Electronic diaries are increasingly used to assess daily pain in many different forms and population s. This systematic review aims to survey the characteristics of studies using electronic pain diaries and to examine how these characteristics affect compliance .
Intensive momentary reporting of pain with an electronic diary: reactivity, compliance, and patient satisfaction
& NA ; Patient self‐reports are the primary method for capturing the experience of pain , and diaries are often used to collect patient self‐reports . This study was design ed to determine if momentary monitoring of pain with an electronic diary affected pain levels over time , if it affected weekly recall of pain , and if daily sampling density affected compliance rates and patients ’ reactions to the study . Ninety‐one patients with chronic pain were r and omized into four groups with differing levels of momentary monitoring over 2 weeks . Little support was found for reactivity defined as temporal shifts in pain over the study or as changes in recalled weekly pain due to momentary monitoring . Compliance with the electronic diary protocol was 94 % or better , and was not related to sampling density . Patients reported little difficulty with the diary procedures and were not unduly burdened by the protocol
Compliance was generally high , and positively associated with shorter diaries , age , having a user 's manual , financial compensation and using an alarm .
Electronic diaries are increasingly used to assess daily pain in many different forms and population s. This systematic review aims to survey the characteristics of studies using electronic pain diaries and to examine how these characteristics affect compliance .