Digital Supportive Care Awareness & Navigation (D-SCAN)

Duke University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Supportive Care

Treatments: Device: D-SCAN

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; Industry

Identifiers

NCT03628794

Pro00092123

Details and patient eligibility

About

To pilot test the feasibility, usability, and preliminary efficacy of the D-SCAN mobile application in cancer patients and caregivers at Duke.

Full description

D-SCAN, a digital patient navigator service in the form of a mobile application ("app"), has been designed at Duke, with feedback from Duke Cancer Institute (DCI) patients, caregivers and clinicians (screenshots in Appendix A).3 Its purpose is to facilitate awareness of available Cancer Patient Support Program (CPSP) services at Duke, and to also help patients recognize their unmet symptom management needs by answering questions from the Edmonton Symptom Assessment Scale (ESAS). This novel electronic system helps to connect patients and their loved ones with existing resources tailored to their unique situations, ensuring that no supportive care needs go unaddressed, thus improving patients' lives and their cancer care.

This protocol aims to assess the feasibility, usability, and preliminary efficacy of the D-SCAN mobile application. The app data, along with quantitative and qualitative feedback obtained during the pilot, will inform future development and design of a subsequent efficacy trial.

Enrollment: 60 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients who are at least age 18
• Patients who have the capacity to give consent
• Patients with advanced cancer who have initiated treatment at the DCI in the last 12 weeks
• Caregivers over the age of 18 caring for either enrolled or not enrolled patients with advanced cancer who have initiated treatment at the DCI in the last 12 weeks

Exclusion criteria

• Patients who are too ill to participate (per clinician discretion)
• Patients not able to read or understand English

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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60 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention

Other group

Description:

Subjects in the intervention group will receive the D-SCAN mobile application

Treatment:

Device: D-SCAN

Control

Other group

Description:

Subjects randomized into the control group will receive standard of care which includes the routine provision of information about supportive care services by nurses and other staff in the DCI clinics, as part of the standard nurse-driven distress screening and management process

Treatment:

Device: D-SCAN