Modelling and classifying joint trajectories of self-reported mood and pain in a large cohort study.

Autor: Rajenki Das, Mark Muldoon, Mark Lunt, John McBeth, Belay Birlie Yimer, Thomas House
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: PLOS Digital Health, Vol 2, Iss 3, p e0000204 (2023)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2767-3170
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pdig.0000204
Popis: It is well-known that mood and pain interact with each other, however individual-level variability in this relationship has been less well quantified than overall associations between low mood and pain. Here, we leverage the possibilities presented by mobile health data, in particular the "Cloudy with a Chance of Pain" study, which collected longitudinal data from the residents of the UK with chronic pain conditions. Participants used an App to record self-reported measures of factors including mood, pain and sleep quality. The richness of these data allows us to perform model-based clustering of the data as a mixture of Markov processes. Through this analysis we discover four endotypes with distinct patterns of co-evolution of mood and pain over time. The differences between endotypes are sufficiently large to play a role in clinical hypothesis generation for personalised treatments of comorbid pain and low mood.
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