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Price, Blaine; Kelly, Ryan; Mehta, Vikram; Mccormick, Ciaran; Ahmed, Hanad and Pearce, Oliver
(2018).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3173743
Abstract
Monitoring patients' pain is a critical issue for clinical caregivers, particularly among staff responsible for providing analgesic relief. However, collecting regularly scheduled pain readings from patients can be difficult and time-consuming for clinicians. In this paper we present Painpad, a tangible device that was developed to allow patients to engage in self-logging of their pain. We report findings from two hospital-based field studies in which Painpad was deployed to a total of 78 inpatients recovering from ambulatory surgery. We find that Painpad results in improved frequency and compliance with pain logging, and that self-logged scores may be more faithful to patients' experienced pain than corresponding scores reported to nurses. We also show that older adults may prefer tangible interfaces over tablet-based alternatives for reporting their pain, and we contribute design lessons for pain logging devices intended for use in hospital settings.
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- Item ORO ID
- 52825
- Item Type
- Conference or Workshop Item
- ISBN
- 1-4503-5620-6, 978-1-4503-5620-6
- Keywords
- health; mobile devices; pain diaries; pain logging
- Academic Unit or School
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Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) > Computing and Communications
Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) - Research Group
- Software Engineering and Design (SEAD)
- Copyright Holders
- © 2018 The Authors
- Related URLs
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- https://chi2018.acm.org/(Other)
- Depositing User
- Blaine Price