Published on in Vol 13 (2026)

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/76175, first published .
Sex Representation and User Preferences in Pain Drawing Body Charts in Back Pain Research: Multimethod Study

Sex Representation and User Preferences in Pain Drawing Body Charts in Back Pain Research: Multimethod Study

Sex Representation and User Preferences in Pain Drawing Body Charts in Back Pain Research: Multimethod Study

Sonja Schläpfer   1 , PhD ;   Casey Murphy   1 , MBA ;   Yanick X Lukic   2, 3 , PhD ;   Concepción Campos-Asensio   4 , BPharm, MLIS ;   Giovanni Colacicco   5 , MD ;   Beatrice A Lauber   5 , DVM ;   Sophie Masneuf   6 , PhD ;   Luana Nyirö   7 , DCM ;   Georg W Kajdi   8 , MD ;   Reto Sutter   8 , Prof Dr Med ;   Christoph J Laux   9 , MD ;   Philipp Ackermann   2 , PhD ;   Jesús López-Alcalde   1, 10, 11 , MPH, MD ;   Claudia M Witt   1 , Prof Dr Med

1 Complementary and Integrative Digital Health, Institute of Primary Care, University of Zurich and University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

2 Institute of Computer Science, School of Engineering, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Winterthur, Switzerland

3 School of Medicine, University of St.Gallen, St.Gallen, Switzerland

4 Medical Library, Hospital Universitario de Getafe, Madrid, Spain

5 Institute of Anatomy, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

6 Neuroscience Center Zurich, ETH and University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

7 Department of Chiropractic Medicine, Balgrist University Hospital, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

8 Radiology Department, Balgrist University Hospital, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

9 University Spine Center Zurich, Balgrist University Hospital, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

10 Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Francisco de Vitoria (UFV), Madrid, Spain

11 Instituto Ramón y Cajal de Investigación Sanitaria (IRYCIS), Unidad de bioestadística clínica, Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal, (CIBERESP), Cochrane Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Corresponding Author:

  • Sonja Schläpfer, PhD
  • Complementary and Integrative Digital Health, Institute of Primary Care
  • University of Zurich and University Hospital Zurich
  • Sonneggstrasse 6
  • Zurich 8091
  • Switzerland
  • Phone: 41 44 255 94 51
  • Email: sonja.schlaepfer@usz.ch