Nurse AMIE: A Tablet Based Supportive Care Platform in Metastatic Breast Cancer (NurseAMIE)

Penn State Health

Status: Completed

Conditions: Metastatic Breast Cancer

Treatments: Behavioral: Nurse AMIE

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03456973

STUDY00006544

Details and patient eligibility

About

The investigators propose to build and test a supportive care software platform called Nurse AMIE (Addressing Metastatic Individuals Everyday) to be provided to metastatic breast cancer patients on Android Tablets. This program will be tested in 50 metastatic breast cancer patients within the Penn State Cancer Institute's 28 county catchment area. The company with whom the investigator will partner to develop this application is already working with multiple investigators at the institution (Webster Group).

Full description

Goals of the Nurse AMIE software program are to regularly assess psychosocial, functional, and symptom needs among metastatic breast cancer patients and to provide appropriate interventions via YouTube style videos, weekly Skype calls (face to face, tablet to tablet) with a patient navigator at Penn State, and appropriate referrals to phone or in person consultations as needed. The proposed Nurse AMIE software program will allow for the provision of resources (YouTube style videos, audio files, exercises) to intervene on many of the common symptoms and challenges experienced by metastatic patients. This is an identified need on the part of both metastatic patients and their medical care teams. Finally, it will also allow patient navigators to check in with patients, reviewing responses to surveys, discerning whether new or different interventions are needed, and connecting women to palliative care and other services if additional care is warranted.

Enrollment: 7 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. Women with metastatic breast cancer
2. ECOG performance score ≤3.
3. English Speaking
4. With sufficient vision/hearing or family support

Exclusion criteria

1. Medical or psychiatric conditions (beyond breast cancer, its treatment, and its symptoms) that would impair our ability to test study hypotheses (e. g. psychotic disorders, dementia, inability to give informed consent or follow the instruction).
2. Patients who are receiving any other behavioral intervention

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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7 participants in 1 patient group

Nurse AMIE

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Nurse AMIE