PAIN-LESS: Understanding and Alleviating Pain for Cancer Patients in Academic and Community Hospitals

Abramson Cancer Center at Penn Medicine1 site in 1 country466 target enrollmentSeptember 2014

ConditionsCancer

Overview

Phase: N/A
Intervention: Not specified
Conditions: Cancer
Sponsor: Abramson Cancer Center at Penn Medicine
Enrollment: 466
Locations: 1
Primary Endpoint: Number of subjects providing completed surveys
Status: Completed
Last Updated: 6 years ago

Overview Investigators Eligibility Criteria Outcomes Sites Similar Trials

Overview

Brief Summary

This study will increase knowledge of patient preferences for pain treatments, and improve the ability to meet patients pain management needs. This study will assess patient attitudes towards underutilized treatments and identify technologies to increase awareness of such treatments. This study also demonstrate the feasibility of using the Penn Cancer Network in future clinical and cancer control research and better understand how to effectively raise patients awareness of supportive cancer services.

Registry

clinicaltrials.gov

Start Date

September 2014

End Date

September 30, 2015

Last Updated

6 years ago

Study Type

Observational

Sex

All

Investigators

Sponsor

Abramson Cancer Center at Penn Medicine

Responsible Party

Sponsor

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

•Age 18 or older; Have a primary diagnosis of cancer;
•Have a Karnofsky functional score of 60 or greater (i.e. ambulatory);
•Understand written English;
•Verbally indicate to the RA/RN that they feel physically well enough to complete a survey at the time of approach;
•Report experiencing nonzero pain (on a scale of 0-10) in the last seven days