Effects of a multifaceted teleguided pain care programs in patients with cancer * pilot study

Completed

Conditions: cancer pain
oncologic pain
10027656

Registration Number: NL-OMON36949

Lead Sponsor: Medisch Universitair Ziekenhuis Maastricht

Brief Summary: Not available

Detailed Description: Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status: Completed

Sex: Not specified

Target Recruitment: 10

Inclusion Criteria

- Diagnosis of cancer
- Patients who are under (palliative) anti-tumour treatment in a day clinic or outpatient clinic, or patients who have no treatment options available anymore
- Cancer (treatment related) pain > 2 weeks when patients are not currently treated with opioids or < 2 weeks when patients are already treated with opioids
- Pain is defined as a patient reported pain score * 4 on a numerical rating scale (NRS, scale 0-10)
- Living at home (independent or in a home for the elderly)

Exclusion Criteria

- Expected life expectancy < 3 months
- Chronic non-cancer pain
- Known cognitive impairments
- Participation in other studies that interfere with this study
- Not being able to read and understand the Dutch language
- Reduced vision which complicates screen reading on the tablet-pc
- Non-reachable by phone

Study & Design

Study Type: Interventional

Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
<p>The primary outcomes of the pilot study is to provide insight into the<br /><br>technical functioning, usability, acceptability, comprehensiveness, and<br /><br>feasibility of the telemonitoring intervention and care organisation, for both<br /><br>patients as well as participating health professionals. Technical functioning<br /><br>will be measured by recoding the number of errors, technical failures, defects<br /><br>and their causes in a logbook. Information regarding the usability,<br /><br>acceptability, comprehensiveness, and feasibility of the system will be<br /><br>collected during semi-structured interviews with the research in in logbooks<br /><br>that the nurses will keep in the web based application.</p><br>

Secondary Outcome Measures