iPAINs, will be a computer assisted device made to help create cognitive-behavioral treatment programs (and manage them) that can assist novice or expert professionals in the management of chronic pain in youths (experts who otherwise would not have the resources to develop and manage treatments via Smartphones). Therefore, it will help in the process of knowledge translation in this understudied and undertreated problem (of chronic pain in youths).
This platform (which includes an editor and administrator of treatments) will be evaluated in a sequential phased approach, consisting of 5 independent studies: (1) development of the tool and its contents (ie, digital objects of treatment), and (2) the web environment that allows creating and editing clinical treatments, (3) usability testing of iPAINs by a group of novice clinicians, and (4) experts clinicians to refine the prototype, and (5) a pilot study to determine the feasibility and effectiveness of the tool, that is, implementing a cognitive-behavioral self-administered treatment -through iPAINs- with patients with fibromyalgia or chronic widespread pain (Fibroline).
