Improvement Opportunities for PAINReportIt ® Delivered on a Wireless Tablet: Rated by Black Older Men With Low Back Pain

Abstract

Health care professionals and researchers can implement technology to improve older adults' acceptability of providing health information and to better include older adults in sharing information with health providers. However, older adults' engagement with technology remains low. This study focused on 60 Black older men (mean age = 70 years, SD = 6 years) with low back pain who completed the 13-item Computer Acceptability Scale after using the PAINReportIt ® software on an Apple iPad ® . On average, the sample found it acceptable to use PAINReportIt ® software to share their pain or discomfort but that this was no replacement for oral dialogue with their health care provider. These findings contribute valuable information about the acceptability of using technology and indicate potential opportunities to improve PAINReportIt ® software. Community interventions with acceptable tablet devices can offer new insight into collecting pain or discomfort data in populations with low presence in clinical research studies. [ Research in Gerontological Nursing, 16 (3), 108–114.]