The Impact of Communication With Healthcare Providers Via WeChat on Survival Outcomes for Lung Cancer Patietns

Not yet recruiting

• Conditions: Lung Cancer
• Interventions: Other: Patients diagnosed with lung cancer use WeChat to communicate with healthcare providers; Other: Patients diagnosed with lung cancer don't use WeChat to communicate with healthcare providers

• Registration Number: NCT06592430
• Lead Sponsor: Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Shanghai, China

Brief Summary

The use of smartphone-based WeChat applications offers significant advantages in cancer patient education, rehabilitation monitoring, and postoperative symptom management. Through the WeChat platform, patients can access health education materials, engage in online consultations, and interact with doctors and other patients at any time. This ongoing education and psychological support help alleviate patient anxiety and improve their quality of life. This study aims to conduct a prospective observational study in our hospital to explore the impact of WeChat communication on the prognosis of patients with different histological types and stages of lung cancer.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Status Verified: 2024-09
• Study First Submitted: 2024-09-09
• Study First Submitted QC: 2024-09-09
• Last Update Submitted: 2024-09-09
• Study First Posted: 2024-09-12
• Last Update Posted: 2024-09-12
• Study Start: 2024-10-01
• Primary Completion: 2025-10-01
• Study Completion: 2026-10-01

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 2000

Inclusion Criteria

• (1) Lung cancer patients receiving treatment at Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital (2) ECOG performance status of 0-2 (3) No other serious internal medical conditions (such as severe heart failure, hypertensive crisis, diabetic ketoacidosis, severe liver or kidney impairment, etc.) (4) No history of other malignant tumors in the past 5 years, and no detection of other tumor history during follow-up after lung cancer diagnosis (5) Relevant pathological results

Exclusion Criteria

• (1) Patients refused enrollment in this study; （2）Patients refused follow-up.

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Patients diagnosed with lung cancer use WeChat to communicate with healthcare providers	Patients diagnosed with lung cancer use WeChat to communicate with healthcare providers	-
Patients diagnosed with lung cancer don't use WeChat to communicate with healthcare providers	Patients diagnosed with lung cancer don't use WeChat to communicate with healthcare providers	-

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Overall survival (OS)	5 years	It is defined as the time (years) frome enrollment to death of participants due to an cause. In the case of a patient who still survives at the time of analysis, the date of last contact will be taken as the censoring date.