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

Completed
Conditions
Cancer
Registration Number
NCT02559375
Lead Sponsor
Abramson Cancer Center at Penn Medicine
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.

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
COMPLETED
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
466
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
Exclusion Criteria
  • An inability to understand the requirements of the survey

Study & Design

Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Number of subjects providing completed surveys1 year
Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania

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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

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