Pain Management Smartphone Application for Patients With Stage III-IV Head and Neck Cancer Undergoing Radiation Therapy
Completed · Not applicable
Conditions studied: Head and Neck Cancer, Pain, Lung Cancer, Esophageal Cancer
In brief
This pilot clinical trial studies a pain management smartphone application for monitoring pain in patients with locally advanced head and neck cancer who are undergoing radiation therapy. The study is also open to patients with esophageal or lung cancer. A smartphone application may allow patients to assess their symptoms in a manner that is closer to real-time than having to recall pain episodes during once weekly on-treatment visits with a health care provider. This real-time monitoring may improve the timing and efficacy of interventions leading to better pain-control and quality of life.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT02324881
- Run by
- Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center
- People needed
- 24
- Starts
- 2014-12-01
- Expected to finish
- 2015-10-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2016-07-13
Who can join
Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Radiation oncology patients undergoing 5-7 weeks of definitive radiation therapy for head and neck, esophageal or lung cancer.
- Ability to understand and the willingness to use the PMSA on the patient's personal smartphone
- Displays ability to use and understand the PMSA as evidenced by successful response to alarm and successful entries while monitored by the principal investigator (PI)
- Willing and able to provide informed consent and fill out demographic, disease, and pain assessment questionnaires
- English speaking
You may not qualify if…
- Radiation oncology patients undergoing palliative courses of radiation
- Patients who do not own smartphones
- Patients who are unable to successfully respond to the PMSA alarm and properly enter their data
- Patients who are unable to eat and drink normally
- Patients who are unable to validate their understanding of the pain scale
Where it is running
- Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center — Nashville, Tennessee, United States
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