Strategies to optimise the health equity impact of digital pain self-reporting tools: a series of multi-stakeholder focus groups

Table 1 Evidence supporting the initial selection of priority groups experiencing (digital) pain inequities in the UK

Older adults	Ethnic minority groups - (South Asians; black African)	People living in more socio-economically deprived areas
• Higher pain prevalence [61] • Under-reporting of pain due to physical or mental impairment [59] • Differences in pain perception and beliefs [39] • Less likely to use digital health technologies [43]	• Higher pain prevalence [7, 61, 46]) • Poor digital literacy [1] • Less likely to use digital health technologies [43] • Lower completion of daily digital pain reports [3, 6] • Cultural influence on pain self-reporting [3, 6]	• Higher bodily pain levels [65] • More likely to report chronic pain [61] • Poor digital literacy [60]

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