The Effectiveness of a Patient Self-reported Pain Scoring Tool and a Satisfaction Survey on Cancer Pain Management

Completed

• Conditions: Pain
• Interventions: Behavioral: No intervention

• Registration Number: NCT01829828
• Lead Sponsor: Janssen Korea, Ltd., Korea

Brief Summary

The purpose of this survey is to investigate the usefulness of a patient self-reported scoring tool on patient satisfaction improvement.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2012-01
• Primary Completion: 2012-05
• Study Completion: 2012-05
• Status Verified: 2013-04
• Study First Submitted: 2013-04-08
• Study First Submitted QC: 2013-04-08
• Last Update Submitted: 2013-04-08
• Study First Posted: 2013-04-11
• Last Update Posted: 2013-04-11

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 587

Inclusion Criteria

• Patients who have no experience with the study self-reported pain scoring tool
• Patients who are able to understand and answer the pain scoring tool questions
• Patients admitted to a hospital for more than 5 days due to cancer pain
• Patients for whom their pain managing physicians completed the medical staff's survey

Exclusion Criteria

• Patients who cannot answer the questions due to cognitive impairments

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Inpatients with cancer pain	No intervention	Inpatients admitted for cancer pain management

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Patient satisfaction with the control of cancer-related pain	At baseline	Patients will answer on a 7-point scale how satisfied they feel about their cancer pain treatment. The scale scores range from 1 (not at all satisfied) to 7 (very much satisfied).

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Patient perception of pain	At baseline	Patients will answer on an 11-point scale how much pain they feel. The scales scores range from 0 (no pain at all) to 10 (pain as bad as you can imagine).
Patient pain assessment by medical staff	At baseline	The patient's physician will mark on an 11-point scale the intensity of the patient pain. The scale scores range from 0 (no pain at all) to 10 (pain as bad as you can imagine).