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The International Association for the Study of Pain

The impact of a mHealth intervention project on school absenteeism in adolescents with recurrent pain: A person-centered care approach in a school context.

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This ongoing project aims to support adolescents with recurrent pain problems and promote their school attendance by providing a contextualized and evidence-based intervention through the person-centered healthcare model in the school context. Research shows that adolescents suffering from recurrent pain issues are often facing school failures, concentration problems and anxiety.  In order to help support them, this project is evaluating a mobile health application adapted to school healthcare services and its impact on promoting school attendance in youth with pain symptoms. Recurrent pain in adolescence is identified as one of the most common physical causes of school attendance problems, school absenteeism and dropouts. In Sweden the highest rates exist at the lower secondary education and between the ages 13-15. The project is developing and testing a mobile application through a model of person-centered care while simultaneously supporting the role of the school nurse with an evidence-based tool. It is a three-phase, mixed-methods study.  It combines a pilot study, a randomized control trial and an interview analysis and will report on results of focus groups, semi-structured interviews and questionnaires.  All data collection is anticipated to be complete by the time of the conference.

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