For the purposes of the study, 140 women with chronic pain were divided into two groups — one group with smartphone interventions and one without. The smartphone intervention consisted of one face-to-face session with a therapist and four weeks of written communication via smartphone. Of the 140 women, 112 completed the study.
Researchers found that the group with smartphone interventions reported less catastrophizing. The smartphone interventions also helped prevent increases in chronic pain symptom levels for those women.
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