Painometer

Painometer is a smartphone app used to assess and record pain intensity over time. It includes four of the most widely used scales to measure pain intensity, which are: the Faces of Pain Scale-Revised (FPS-R), the Numerical Rating Scale (NRS), the Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) and the Color Analogue Scale (CAS). In addition, it allows you to point out where in the body pain is experienced. Settings and instructions are available in several languages: Catalan, Spanish, French, English and Portuguese.

This application has been developed and tested by the ALGOS - Research on Pain research group, linked to the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV). More information at: http://www.dolorinfantil.urv.cat. It is aimed at health professionals and patients. The use of Painometer is not a substitute for the doctor-patient relationship. The contents have been developed by specialist psychologists in the evaluation and treatment of pain linked to the Universitat Rovira i Virgili. The developers are telematics and computer engineers.

The creators of Painometer 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