Painometer

Painometer is a smartphone app that helps users to assess momentary pain intensity. It allows to measure, store, display graphically and send a set of measures of pain intensity. It includes four well-validated pain intensity scales: the Faces Pain Scale-Revised (FPS-R), the Numerical Rating Scale (NS), the Coloured Analogue Scale (CAS), and the Visual Analogue Scale (VAS). Settings and instructions are available in several languages: Catalan, Spanish, French, English and Portuguese.

This application has been winner of mHealth - Mobile World Capital Barcelona.

This application has been developed and tested by the Unit for the Study and Treatment of Pain - ALGOS, Rovira i Virgili University. More information at: http://algos-dpsico.urv.cat/en/painometer

Painometer is patient and health professional oriented.

The use of Painometer does not replace doctor-patient relationship.

The contents have been developed by a team of psychologists specialized in the assessment and treatment of pain. All the research group is linked to Universitat Rovira i Virgili (Dr. Jordi Miró, Rocío de la Vega, Elena Castarlenas, Elizabeth Sánchez-Rodríguez). The developers are Computer Engineers (Roman Roset) and technical engineers in telecommunications, specializing in Telematics (Pere Llorens-Vernet).

The creators of Painometer v are committed to reviewing the content and functionality of the application and to improve it on the basis of the available scientific and technical evidence.

Papers about Painometer:

[1] de la Vega R, Roset R, Castarlenas E, Sánchez-Rodríguez E, Solé E, Miró J. Development and Testing of Painometer: A Smartphone App to Assess Pain Intensity. J Pain 2014;15:1001–7. doi:10.1016/j.jpain.2014.04.009.

[2] Castarlenas E, Sánchez-Rodríguez E, Vega R de la, Roset R, Miró J. Agreement Between Verbal and Electronic Versions of the Numerical Rating Scale (NRS-11) when Used to Assess Pain Intensity in Adolescents. Clin J Pain 2015;31:229–34. doi:10.1097/AJP.0000000000000104.

[3] Sánchez-Rodríguez E, de la Vega R, Castarlenas E, Roset R, Miró J. AN APP for the Assessment of Pain Intensity: Validity Properties and Agreement of Pain Reports When Used with Young People. Pain Med 2015;16:1982–92. doi:10.1111/pme.12859.

[4] Sanchez-Rodriguez E, Castarlenas E, de la Vega R, Roset R, Miro J. On the electronic measurement of pain intensity: Can we use different pain intensity scales interchangeably? J Health Psychol 2016. doi:10.1177/1359105316633284.

About the use of FPS-R Scale:

The Faces Pain Scale-Revised has been reproduced with permission of the International Association for the Study of Pain® (IASP).

Original source: Hicks CL, von Baeyer CL, Spafford P, van Korlaar I, Goodenough B. Faces Pain Scale-Revised: Toward a Common Metric in Pediatric Pain Measurement. PAIN® 2001; 93:173-183

Faces Pain Scale - Revised (FPS-R), copyright ©2001, International Association for the Study of Pain, used by permission. www.iasp-pain.org/FPSR

About the use of the Coloured Analogue Scale:

The Coloured Analogue Scale has been reproduced with permission of the authors.

Original source: McGrath PA, Seifert CE, Speechley KN, Booth JC, Stitt L, Gibson MC. A new analogue scale for assessing children’s pain: an initial validation study. PAIN® 1996; 64:435–43