Evaluation of a Mobile Digital Solution for Cancer Care and Research

Saint John's Cancer Institute

Status: Completed

Conditions: Quality of Life; Cancer; Caregivers

Treatments: Other: CancerLife

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03094741

JWCI-17-0301

Details and patient eligibility

About

The primary purpose of this pilot study is to evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of a Mobile Digital Solution in monitoring and collecting symptom burden data. The proposed study is meant to be the preparatory work for an intervention study to test the effect of Mobile Digital Solutions on improving patient outcomes by prompting early interventions for symptom relief and support of patient and family caregiver quality of life (QOL).

Full description

Demographic information and patient-reported symptoms will be collected from study participants through a mobile health application called CancerLife that they can download (FREE) from their mobile device app store (Android or iOS). Participants will be asked to broadcast their emotional and physical status through a list of symptom list within the app as well as how that symptom is impacting their quality of life and activities of daily living. This data will be collected inside the application and display in easy to understand pie charts. Participants will also have the option to broadcast their entry to their social network.

Since the objective of the current feasibility study is to evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of a Mobile Digital Solution in monitoring and collecting symptom burden and QOL data, the investigators will include a standard validated instrument (FACT-G: Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy - General) as part of this study. Participants will be asked to complete the FACT-G after initial registration and weekly for up to 4 weeks. Participants will receive electronic mail messages with a link to CancerLife weekly as a reminder to access the website.

Enrollment: 30 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Established diagnosis of cancer
• Karnofsky Index ≥50%
• Age > 18 years

Exclusion criteria

• Relevant cognitive impairment
• Insufficient knowledge of English language to complete the survey

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

---

30 participants in 1 patient group

CancerLife Feasibility Group

Experimental group

Description:

Participants will be recruited through advertisements targeted to a specific audience using the keywords cancer and cancer survivors

Treatment:

Other: CancerLife