Crowdsourcing
pain
Previous uses of crowdsourcing in health-related research include soliciting research priorities and preferences in back pain [Implementing interventions to engage patients in complex and high-tempo clinical care settings requires significant planning and effort. Any intervention introduced to a complex sociotechnical work system, especially without adequate proactive analysis, may have unintended consequences and actually reduce the system’s overall performance rather than improving it. For interventions that focus explicitly on “behavior modification,” there can be numerous design options, which make it infeasible to implement within the actual clinical work and evaluate. In this study, we found crowdsourcing platform–based analysis of behavioral intervention designs to be feasible, useful in providing valid data, and flexible enough to be complementary to other well-known intervention design and implementation approaches that may require significant time and resources.Web-based crowdsourcing platforms have become increasingly popular for connecting workers to on-demand tasks. Literature suggests that behavioral experiments conducted on MTurk are as valid as those conducted with more traditional methods in laboratories, such as in a study comparing supply chain experiments conducted on MTurk with those in laboratories [