MentorApp for Cancer Patient's Remote Monitoring
- Conditions
- Cancer
- Interventions
- Device: Mentora App
- Registration Number
- NCT04710472
- Lead Sponsor
- Associacao de Investigacao de Cuidados de Suporte em Oncologia
- Brief Summary
With the growing number of cancer survivors, challenges to deal with comorbidities and impacted quality of life of cancer survivors by the disease and treatments also surge. Symptoms and Adverse Events are common and insufficiently monitored in real time / real life, which leads to increased symptom burden, treatment delays and unplanned hospital admissions. Remote monitoring apps have been shown to improve quality of life, symptom control and survival in published clinical trials, but no data with such interventions exists on the Portuguese population.
A phase II randomized controlled trial to explore the feasibility of a mobile app for remote symptom monitoring in cancer patients will be done. Patients will be recruited in Portuguese Hospitals and will be invited to test the app for three months. Patient experience and satisfaction will be assessed via a weekly survey. Quality of life will be assessed at 1 and 3 months.
The results of this pilot study will inform subsequent randomized clinical trials to test safety and efficacy of remote monitoring and lifestyle interventions to improve symptoms control and quality of life.
- Detailed Description
The primary aim is to assess the feasibility and usability of a mobile app (MHapp) to remote register and monitor treatment side effects, lifestyle habits and clinical data in cancer patients.
This is a phase II randomized controlled trial with two study arms:
Arm MH - mobile Mentora app to monitor and track treatment side-effects, vital signs, therapeutics and daily habits; Arm C - SOC
No sham intervention is thought to be viable as we want to test the MHapp as a whole complex intervention with all different components and compare it with current SOC. Patients will be screened at oncology visits for inclusion criteria. It is not viable also to blind clinicians once the app provides a detailed progress report of which we want to assess the impact on oncology care and clinical team satisfaction. We will blind statisticians and people performing the final analysis.
Once agreeing to enrol, patients will be randomly allocated to one of the study arms through a computer generated sequence of numbers, concealed from the clinical staff and patients.
8.1 Study design and Population
Randomized controlled clinical trial with two arms - arm MH (intervention with the MH app) and arm C (controls - standard of care). We will recruit 50 cancer patients in systemic treatments in Portuguese hospitals with oncology service.
Inclusion criteria:
adults (18 years old or older) with a cancer diagnosis at any stage Receiving systemic chemotherapy not in the context of a clinical trial, with treatment expected to continue for at least three months counting from time of enrollment fluent in written Portuguese with a personal mobile smartphone (android or iphone any version) willing to give informed consent for study participation
Exclusion criteria:
Cognitive impairment or disability that limits capacity to comply with study interventions and assessments Having a life expectancy \< 3 months as determined by the attending oncologist ECOG performance status greater than 2 Unable to read and comprehend portuguese language text Participants will remain on study until discontinuation of cancer treatment, voluntary withdrawal, or death.
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- UNKNOWN
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 50
- adults (18 years old or older)
- with a cancer diagnosis at any stage
- Receiving systemic chemotherapy not in the context of a clinical trial, with treatment
- expected to continue for at least three months counting from time of enrollment
- fluent in written Portuguese
- with a personal mobile smartphone (android or iphone any version)
- willing to give informed consent for study participation
- Cognitive impairment or disability that limits capacity to comply with study interventions and assessments
- Having a life expectancy < 3 months as determined by the attending oncologist
- ECOG performance status greater than 2
- Unable to read and comprehend portuguese language text
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- PARALLEL
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description MH Mentora App Arm MH - mobile Mentora app to monitor and track treatment side-effects, vital signs, therapeutics and daily habits;
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method feasibility and usability of the MHapp 1 month The outcome will be considered positive if at least one of the 2 following criteria applies to more than 60 percent of participants enrolled:
replies to 2 or more weekly reports OR at least one weekly log in to the app.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method To understand how to improve users' experience navigating the MHapp 1 week, 1 month, 3 months General question about usability and ease of use will be asked on the survey done at 1 week, 1 month and 3 months from D1 and explored in further detail at the interview at 1 month;
To evaluate the impact of MHapp on cancer patients QoL on European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer.(EORTC) Core (c)30 1 and 3 months Impact of MHapp on cancer Qol
To explore the satisfaction of cancer patients, clinical teams and their carers with the MHapp 1 week, 1 month, 3 months Patient's satisfaction with the app will be documented via survey at 1 week, 1 month and 3 months from D1 and interview at 1 month; Satisfaction of clinical oncology doctors and nurses with the information report provided by the MHapp on a Likert scale from 0 (not satisfied at all) to 7 (Very satisfied) and through qualitative analysis of open ended questions via interview at the end of the study period
To compare healthcare resources use in both study arms 1 month, 3 months Report healthcare resources use:
number of unplanned hospital visits or calls; unplanned hospitalizations; time inside medical appointments.To report adherence rates to the app usage at 1 and 3 months on the intervention arm 1 month, 3 months Percentage of side effects and adverse events reported on medical appointments also registered in the MHapp during the 1st month on study Total attendance - retention rate/total withdraw from study (30 days)
To evaluate the impact on AEs G>2 per CTCAE (Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events) v.5 (minimum 1 maximum 4) 1 and 3 months Frequency of G\>2 AEs