Effects of Mobile Medicine on Cancer Patients

Fujian Provincial Cancer Hospital

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Cancer Pain

Treatments: Behavioral: conventional pharmaceutical care; Behavioral: mini program

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05049811

FJZLYX002

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Full 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.

Enrollment: 200 estimated patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

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.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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200 participants in 2 patient groups

a mini program trial group

Experimental group

Description:

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.

Treatment:

Behavioral: mini program

a control group

Sham Comparator group

Description:

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.

Treatment:

Behavioral: conventional pharmaceutical care