Pilot test of feasibility and effects of the implementation of a self-management support intervention for patients with cancer and their family caregivers to reduce pain and related symptoms
Not Applicable
- Conditions
- oncology patients with cancer-related pain and associated symptomsR52.9Pain, unspecified
- Registration Number
- DRKS00005034
- Lead Sponsor
- niversitätsklinikum Freiburg
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Complete
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 39
Inclusion Criteria
In-patients of a palliative care consultation service; Patients will be included if they have cancer-related pain >3/10 (NRS 0 = no pain to 10 = worst pain imaginable); will be discharged from hospital with need for pain self-management, have an expected life expectancy of =3 months, understand, read and write German, and have access to a telephone.
Exclusion Criteria
Patients will be excluded if they have severe cognitive deficits. If patients are hospitalized for more than 2 week during the 6 weeks study period, they will be excluded. Data that were collected before hospitalization will be included in the analysis.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method The primary outcome will be average and worst pain intensity, measured on the widely used numeric rating scale from 0 (no pain) to 10 (worst imaginable pain) measured at T0, T1 und T2 (T0 before, T1 one week and T2 six weeks after discharge).
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method