Using Mini Program for Self-management VS Conventional Pharmaceutical Care for Cancer Pain

April 13, 2021 updated by: Fujian Cancer Hospital

Comparison of Cancer Pain Patients With or Without Mini Program

With the existing medical system and insufficient medical resources in China, we developed a mini program. a pain management mini app can be useful and appreciated by patients and health care professionals, making it a good choice for the management of cancer pain in our country . our study want to develop and test the mini program for pain management among Chinese cancer patients in or discharged from hospital treatment.

Study Overview

Status

Not yet recruiting

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Detailed Description

Healthcare interventions delivered via personal mobile device have been shown to be acceptable to users, who have identified benefits such as convenience, access to personalized information, greater awareness of own health. Integrating mini program into the cancer pain care may be an effective strategy to improve cancer pain patients self-management.

To design, construct, and test the mini program in patients managing cancer pain, evaluate the total remission rate of pain and the improvement in medicine compliance to improve pain management for cancer pain patients, and assess patient acceptance of the mini program.

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Anticipated)

200

Phase

  • Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Contact

  • Name: QiuLing Zhao
  • Phone Number: 5305 0591-83660063
  • Email: qlzhao8@163.com

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

  • Child
  • Adult
  • Older Adult

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Genders Eligible for Study

All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Patients aged 18 years or older;
  • Be able to read Chinese and use a mobile phone;
  • Histologically or cytologically confirmed solid tumor;
  • Diagnosed chronic cancer pain
  • Could understand the study process and evaluation, agreed to participate in the trial, and signed the informed consent form.

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Illiterate person;
  • Incompetence;
  • Inability to complete the pain assessment;
  • Participation in any other therapies or other study protocols that may have an impact on pain intensity, which were the main outcomes of this study;

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: Supportive Care
  • Allocation: Randomized
  • Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
  • Masking: None (Open Label)

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: a mini program trial group
Pharmacists conducted a standardized education session to teach the participants how to operate the mobile phone, use mini program, assess pain. The participants in the trial group were asked to complete initial and final pain assessment questionnaires and Medication compliance on the mobile phones provided to them. Participants were encouraged to use mini program as much as possible to record their pain status.
Other: mini program
To design, construct, and test the mini program in patients managing cancer pain
Other Names:
  • "yao nin you wo "
Sham Comparator: a control group
The control group received conventional pharmaceutical care. Initial and final pain and Medication compliance data were collected. Before the patient was discharged from the hospital, the clinical pharmacist conducted detailed medication education (including medication methods, prevention and treatment of adverse reactions, and precautions) and asked the patient to attempt to maintain a paper version of the pain diary.
Other: conventional pharmaceutical care
conventional pharmaceutical care

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Change in pain score
Time Frame: Change from baseline at four weeks after discharge
Comparison of pain score of cancer pain patients with or without mini program. Pain score will be assessed by using numeric rating scale (NRS). An NRS allows a person to describe the intensity of his/her pain as a number usually ranging from 0 to 10, where "0" means "no pain" and "10" means pain as "bad as it could be."
Change from baseline at four weeks after discharge

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Change in medication adherence
Time Frame: Change from baseline at four weeks after discharge
The investigators will measure the change in medication adherence via Morisky Scale. Morisky Scale contains 4 questions, and the total score ranges from 0 to 4 with lower scores indicating higher adherence.
Change from baseline at four weeks after discharge
Incidence of adverse events
Time Frame: Up to four weeks after discharge
Adverse events will be assessed throughout the study according the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Event (CTCAE) Version 4.0. Number of subjects who experienced an adverse event in this study is presented.
Up to four weeks after discharge
Change in quality of life
Time Frame: Change from baseline at four weeks after discharge
Comparison of quality of life of cancer pain patients with or without mini program. Quality of life is assessed using EuroQol- 5 Dimension (EQ-5D).
Change from baseline at four weeks after discharge

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

Fujian Cancer Hospital

Study record dates

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Study Major Dates

Study Start (Anticipated)

May 1, 2021

Primary Completion (Anticipated)

May 30, 2021

Study Completion (Anticipated)

June 1, 2021

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

April 8, 2021

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

April 13, 2021

First Posted (Actual)

April 14, 2021

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

April 14, 2021

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

April 13, 2021

Last Verified

April 1, 2021

More Information

Terms related to this study

Keywords

Additional Relevant MeSH Terms

Other Study ID Numbers

  • FJZLYX001

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?

NO

Drug and device information, study documents

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product

No

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product

No

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