Mobile Health App and Web Platform (eDOL) for Medical Follow-Up of Patients With Chronic Pain: Cohort Study Involving the French eDOL National Cohort After 1 Year.

Background: Chronic pain affects approximately 30% of the general population, severely degrades quality of life and professional life, and leads to additional health care costs. Moreover, the medical follow-up of patients with chronic pain remains complex and provides only fragmentary data on painful daily experiences. This situation makes the management of patients with chronic pain less than optimal and may partly explain the lack of effectiveness of current therapies.

eDOL mHealth App and Web Platform for Self-monitoring and Medical Follow-up of Patients With Chronic Pain: Observational Feasibility Study.

Background: Chronic pain affects approximately 30% of the general population, severely degrades quality of life (especially in older adults) and professional life (inability or reduction in the ability to work and loss of employment), and leads to billions in additional health care costs. Moreover, available painkillers are old, with limited efficacy and can cause significant adverse effects. Thus, there is a need for innovation in the management of chronic pain.

Fine Detection of Human Motion During Activities of Daily Living as a Clinical Indicator for the Detection and Early Treatment of Chronic Diseases: The E-Mob Project.

Methods to measure physical activity and sedentary behaviors typically quantify the amount of time devoted to these activities. Among patients with chronic diseases, these methods can provide interesting behavioral information, but generally do not capture detailed body motion and fine movement behaviors. Fine detection of motion may provide additional information about functional decline that is of clinical interest in chronic diseases.

Cross-Sectional Study of Prevalence, Characterization and Impact of Chronic Pain Disorders in Workers.

Chronic pain prevention and treatment constitute a challenge for occupational health The aim of this study was to provide data on workers in a variety of jobs and multiple contexts to determine the prevalence and characteristics of different chronic pain disorders, in view to highlighting possible new targets for preventive actions. 1,008 participants working in 14 French IKEA stores were analyzed in this observational study on the basis of their responses to surveys on their sociodemographic characteristics, psychosocial factors, lifestyle, and pain disorders. The prevalence of chronic pain, moderate-to-severe chronic pain and high-impact chronic pain were 49%, 30%, and 11%, respectively.