Dual-Facing Digital Health Systems to Support Self-Management of Chronic Pain: Protocol for a Scoping Review
Martin Pursley, Fiona Muirhead, Alexandra Mavroeidi, Roma Maguire, Javad Sarvestan · 2026
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Martin Pursley and colleagues lay out in 2026 a plan to map digital health tools that serve pain patients and clinicians at once. Chronic pain touches about one adult in five worldwide, and guided self-management is a standard recommendation. Tools facing both sides of the clinic door may support that work better than patient-only apps.
Their scoping review will search six databases for studies since 2010 and chart system features, user groups, and guiding frameworks. Early screening already narrowed more than a thousand records to nineteen included studies. Signs point to patchy use of theory and weak links between the patient and clinician sides. Findings are meant to steer the design of stronger shared tools.
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| CREATOR | Martin Pursley, Fiona Muirhead, Alexandra Mavroeidi, Roma Maguire, Javad Sarvestan |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 41 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |