Comparing Reports Recorded by the Patients at the Time at Which They Feels Pain to What Patients Report at Monthly Visits to Assess Symptoms of Musculoskeletal Diseases.

The Importance of Ecological Momentary Assessment to Capture the Whole Patient's Symptoms Experience in Musculo-skeletal Conditions

Status

Recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT06283199

Enrollment

1500

Registered

2024-02-28

Start date

2021-04-06

Completion date

2027-12-31

Last updated

2026-09-11

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Conditions

Musculoskeletal Pain

Brief summary

Patients will be introduced to the use of a mobile application for their smartphone to record the Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA). This app will ask the patients to assess their pain and function two times daily for 2 months. After 1 month and at the end of the 2 months, follow-up visits will be performed and patients will be asked to retrospectively evaluate the pain that they suffered and the level of function they had during the last month.

Interventions

None listed

Study design

Observational model

COHORT

Time perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

18 Years to No maximum

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

* Symptomatic patients * Patients able to give informed consent and to follow the protocol of the study (i.e. able to use a smartphone) * Patients \>18 years * BMI \<35 and \>18.5 * Patients with a smartphone with Android or iOS as operative systems

Exclusion criteria

* Patients unable to follow the protocol of the study (i.e. unable to use a smartphone, not owning a smartphone or unwilling to download or use the application) * Patients with a diagnosis of a musculoskeletal injury but without symptoms * Patients without a radiological examination confirming the diagnosis of musculoskeletal disease * Patients with planned surgery in the following 60 days * Pregnant or lactating woman * Patients with other diseases causing pain in the involved joint (e.g. rheumatoid arthritis or other rheumatologic diseases). * Surgical treatment in the last year and intra-articular injection in the last 6 months

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Difference in pain level	one month	difference between the level of pain collected within the first month of mobile application and the level of pain reported through a retrospective recall-based assessment on the 0-10 Numerical Rating Scale

Countries

Italy, Switzerland

Contacts

CONTACTChristian Candrian, MD

RicercaOrtopedia.ORL@eoc.ch00419117029

Outcome results