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Mobile Web-Based Monitoring and Coaching: Feasibility in Chronic Migraine

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Sorbi, Marjolijn J, Mak, Sander B, Houtveen, Jan H, Kleiboer, Annet M, van Doornen, Lorenz JP·2007·Journal of Medical Internet Research

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BACKGROUND: The Internet can facilitate diary monitoring (experience sampling, ecological momentary assessment) and behavioral coaching. Online digital assistance (ODA) is a generic tool for mobile Web-based use, intended as an adjuvant to face-to-face or Internet-based cognitive behavioral treatment based. A current ODA application was designed to support home-based training of behavioral attack prevention in chronic migraine, focusing on the identification of attack precursors and the support of preventive health behaviour. OBJECTIVE: The aim was to establish feasibility of the ODA approach in terms of technical problems and participant compliance, and ODA acceptability on the basis of ratings of user-friendliness, potential burden, and perceived support of the training for behavioral attack prevention in migraine. METHODS: ODA combines mobile electronic diary monitoring with direct human online coaching of health behavior according to the information from the diary. The diary contains three parts covering the following: (1) migraine headache and medication use, (2) attack precursors, and (3) self-relaxation and other preventive behavior; in addition, menstruation (assessed in the evening diary) and disturbed sleep (assessed in the morning diary) is monitored. The pilot study consisted of two runs conducted with a total of five women with chronic migraine without aura. ODA was tested for 8.5 days (range 4-12 days) per participant. The first test run with three participants tested 4-5 diary prompts per day. The second run with another three participants (including one subject who participated in both runs) tested a reduced prompting scheme (2-3 prompts per day) and minor adaptations to the diary. Online coaching was executed twice daily on workdays. RESULTS: ODA feasibility was established on the basis of acceptable data loss (1.2% due to the personal digital assistant; 5.6% due to failing Internet transmission) and good participant compliance (86.8% in the second run). Run 1 revealed some annoyance with the number of prompts per day. Overall ODA acceptability was evident by the positive participant responses concerning user-friendliness, absence of burden, and perceived support of migraine attack prevention. The software was adapted to further increase the flexibility of the application. CONCLUSIONS: ODA is feasible and well accepted. Tolerability is a sensitive issue, and the balance between benefit and burden must be considered with care. ODA offers a generic tool to combine mobile coaching with diary monitoring,independently of time and space. ODA effects on improvement of migraine remain to be established.

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Authors
Sorbi, M. J., Mak, S. B., Houtveen, J. H., Kleiboer, A. M., & van Doornen, L. J.
Affiliations
Utrecht University (NL)
Corresponding author
Sorbi, Marjolijn J
Venue
Journal of Medical Internet Research
Published
2007-12-31
Volume
9
Issue
5
Pages
e38
ISSN
1438-8871 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2104272549
Cited by
78
References
20
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2.22
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Language
en
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Funders
  • ZonMw
  • Universiteit Utrecht
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Migraine and Headache Studies
  • Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Applied Psychology › Digital Mental Health Interventions
Keywords
chronic migraine, ecological momentary assessment, online coaching, self-relaxation, sleep disorders, menstrual cycle, feasibility, acceptability, burden, women
MeSH terms
Chronic Disease, Electronics, Equipment Design, Feasibility Studies, Humans, Migraine Disorders, Monitoring, Physiologic, Patient Education as Topic, Internet, Cell Phone

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