How the weather affects the pain of citizen scientists using a smartphone app

被引：54

作者：

Dixon, William G. ^{[1
,2
,3
]}

Beukenhorst, Anna L. ^{[1
]}

Yimer, Belay B. ^{[1
]}

Cook, Louise ^{[1
]}

Gasparrini, Antonio ^{[4
,5
]}

El-Hay, Tal ^{[6
]}

Hellman, Bruce ^{[7
]}

James, Ben ^{[7
]}

Vicedo-Cabrera, Ana M. ^{[4
]}

Maclure, Malcolm ^{[8
]}

Silva, Ricardo ^{[9
,10
]}

Ainsworth, John ^{[2
]}

Pisaniello, Huai Leng ^{[1
,11
]}

House, Thomas ^{[12
,13
]}

Lunt, Mark ^{[1
]}

Gamble, Carolyn ^{[3
,14
,15
]}

Sanders, Caroline ^{[14
,15
]}

Schultz, David M. ^{[16
]}

Sergeant, Jamie C. ^{[1
,3
,17
]}

McBeth, John ^{[1
,3
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Manchester, Manchester Acad Hlth Sci Ctr, Ctr Epidemiol Versus Arthrit, Manchester, Lancs, England

[2] Univ Manchester, Manchester Acad Hlth Sci Ctr, Hlth eRes Ctr, Manchester, Lancs, England

[3] Univ Manchester, Manchester Acad Hlth Sci Ctr, NIHR Greater Manchester Biomed Res Ctr, Manchester, Lancs, England

[4] London Sch Hyg & Trop Med, Dept Publ Hlth Environm & Soc, London, England

[5] London Sch Hyg & Trop Med, Ctr Stat Methodol, London, England

[6] IBM Res, Haifa, Israel

[7] uMotif Ltd, London, England

[8] Univ British Columbia, Dept Anesthesiol Pharmacol & Therapeut, Vancouver, BC, Canada

[9] UCL, Dept Stat Sci, London, England

[10] Alan Turing Inst, London, England

[11] Univ Adelaide, Discipline Med, Adelaide, SA, Australia

[12] Univ Manchester, Sch Math, Manchester, Lancs, England

[13] IBM Res, Hartree Ctr, Sci Tech, Daresbury, England

[14] Univ Manchester, Greater Manchester Patient Safety Translat Res Ct, Manchester, Lancs, England

[15] Univ Manchester, Manchester Acad Hlth Sci Ctr, NIHR Sch Primary Care, Manchester, Lancs, England

[16] Univ Manchester, Ctr Atmospher Sci, Sch Earth & Environm Sci, Manchester, Lancs, England

[17] Univ Manchester, Manchester Acad Hlth Sci Ctr, Ctr Biostat, Manchester, Lancs, England

来源：

NPJ DIGITAL MEDICINE | 2019年 / 2卷 / 1期

基金：

英国工程与自然科学研究理事会; 英国医学研究理事会; 英国自然环境研究理事会;

关键词：

CASE-CROSSOVER DESIGN; FIBROMYALGIA; VARIABLES;

D O I：

10.1038/s41746-019-0180-3

中图分类号：

R19 [保健组织与事业（卫生事业管理）];

学科分类号：

摘要：

Patients with chronic pain commonly believe their pain is related to the weather. Scientific evidence to support their beliefs is inconclusive, in part due to difficulties in getting a large dataset of patients frequently recording their pain symptoms during a variety of weather conditions. Smartphones allow the opportunity to collect data to overcome these difficulties. Our study Cloudy with a Chance of Pain analysed daily data from 2658 patients collected over a 15-month period. The analysis demonstrated significant yet modest relationships between pain and relative humidity, pressure and wind speed, with correlations remaining even when accounting for mood and physical activity. This research highlights how citizen-science experiments can collect large datasets on real-world populations to address long-standing health questions. These results will act as a starting point for a future system for patients to better manage their health through pain forecasts.

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