Patterns and predictors of variability in patient-generated daily pain severity collected via a mobile health smartphone app

Claire L. Little; Belay B. Yimer; Thomas House; William G. Dixon; David M. Schultz; John McBeth

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0345420

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Patterns and predictors of variability in patient-generated daily pain severity collected via a mobile health smartphone app

Claire L. Little,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Epidemiology Versus Arthritis, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
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Belay B. Yimer,

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Epidemiology Versus Arthritis, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
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Thomas House,

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
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William G. Dixon,

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centre for Epidemiology Versus Arthritis, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, NIHR Manchester Musculoskeletal Biomedical Research Unit, Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, United Kingdom
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David M. Schultz ,

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: david.schultz@manchester.ac.uk

Affiliations Centre for Atmospheric Science, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, Centre for Crisis Studies and Mitigation, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1558-6975

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John McBeth

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Primary Care Research Centre and Digital Health and Biomedical Engineering Group, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom

Affiliations Centre for Epidemiology Versus Arthritis, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, NIHR Manchester Musculoskeletal Biomedical Research Unit, Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, United Kingdom
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Patterns and predictors of variability in patient-generated daily pain severity collected via a mobile health smartphone app

Claire L. Little,
Belay B. Yimer,
Thomas House,
William G. Dixon,
David M. Schultz,
John McBeth

Published: April 2, 2026
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0345420

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