CAPTURE: Improving pain assessment for cancer patients, a cluster randomised control pilot trial

Not Applicable

• Conditions: Chronic pain in cancer patients; Cancer

• Registration Number: ISRCTN86926298
• Lead Sponsor: niversity of Leeds

Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2023-09-01
• Last Update Posted: 6 November 2023
• Study Completion: 2024-11-01

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Ongoing
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 180

Inclusion Criteria

Patients:
1. Attending a participating outpatient service during the trial period and,
2. Aged 18 years or over;
3. Have a diagnosis of cancer;
4. Self-report a score of > = 3 on the 0-10 Numerical Rating Scale (NRS) for worst pain in the past 72 hours;

Healthcare professionals:
1. Work at a participating outpatient service during the study period.

Exclusion Criteria

Patients:
1. Clinical judgement will be used to determine patients that are too ill to take part, including those with severe mental health problems;
2. Considered by their clinical teams to be actively dying;
3. Unable to complete a NRS in English;
4. Are not expected to be available for first follow-up data collection (1-week).

Healthcare professionals:
1. Do not have any contact with oncology outpatient patients.

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified