Intelligent Pain Management System for Assessing Pain in Cancer Patients

Xinhua Translational Institute for Cancer Pain, Shanghai

Status: Completed

Conditions: Neoplasms; Pain

Treatments: Device: Intelligent Pain Management System

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02765269

XHTICP 001

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine whether the Intelligent Pain Management System (IPMS) could make recording and interfering pain timely among cancer patients with pain. The system's usability, feasibility, compliance, and satisfaction will also be assessed.

Full description

Research indicate that over one-third of cancer patients experienced cancer pain, which is known as a major reason leading to lower quality of life of the patients.In this present study, the investigators aim to design, develop, and test the feasibility of a low cost, conveniently implemented mobile application to facilitate real-time pain recording and timely intervention among Chinese cancer patients with pain. This system evaluate real-time pain and Karnofsky Performance Status（KPS）scores for quality of life, and to generate an action plan to visit the physician or to adjust pain medication dosage when the pain threshold is reached. The investigators study is to test this system's effectiveness.

Enrollment: 46 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 45 to 70 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• the patient was able to read Chinese and use smart phones;
• the patient was diagnosed with cancer and has self-reported cancer pain within a month prior to the study;
• the patient was being seen on a regular basis by the oncology team;
• the patient was under standard analgesia treatments;
• the patient was estimated to have over 3 months survival time.

Exclusion criteria

• the patients who self-reported to have severe cognitive impairments or major comorbid illnesses that would interfere with pain assessment.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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46 participants in 2 patient groups

IPMS group

Experimental group

Description:

Cancer patients with pain are asked to use the Intelligent Pain Management System as much as possible to record the degree and location of pain at least once every day. Through assessments of these pain record, physicians could give the patients appropriate advice.

Treatment:

Device: Intelligent Pain Management System

Control group

No Intervention group

Description:

The control group are communicated through conventional method such as telephone calls or door-to-door visit to collect the pain assessment to guide doctors' therapy.