PAIN-LESS: Understanding and Alleviating Pain for Cancer Patients in Academic and Community Hospitals

Completed

Conditions studied: Cancer

In brief

This study will increase knowledge of patient preferences for pain treatments, and improve the ability to meet patients pain management needs. This study will assess patient attitudes towards underutilized treatments and identify technologies to increase awareness of such treatments. This study also demonstrate the feasibility of using the Penn Cancer Network in future clinical and cancer control research and better understand how to effectively raise patients awareness of supportive cancer services.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT02559375

Run by

Abramson Cancer Center at Penn Medicine

People needed

466

Starts

2014-09-01

Expected to finish

2015-09-30

Last updated by the study team

2019-07-23

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Age 18 or older; Have a primary diagnosis of cancer;
• Have a Karnofsky functional score of 60 or greater (i.e. ambulatory);
• Understand written English;
• Verbally indicate to the RA/RN that they feel physically well enough to complete a survey at the time of approach;
• Report experiencing nonzero pain (on a scale of 0-10) in the last seven days

You may not qualify if…

• An inability to understand the requirements of the survey

Where it is running

• Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

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