An Intervention Based on Text Message (SMS) to Help Cancer Patients in Chemotherapy Treatment
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 发起方
- 入组人数
- 80
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- Change from Chemotherapy Side Effects - QLQ-C30 EORTC questionnaire
研究概览
简要总结
This study evaluates the text message (SMS) with orientation to help the management of chemotherapy treatment.
详细描述
The investigators developed an app (called ChemotherApp) for Android that automatically sends text messages with homecare orientation to cancer patients in intervention group. The main features of this app are: to register information such as name, number of cellphone, gender, and chemotherapy schedule of the patient. Other feature is to register the orientation that will be sent to patients by text messages. Daily, the app send a registered orientation to each patient.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Supportive Care
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 70 Years（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •Cancer patients who will start chemotherapy treatment in Hospital Escola of Federal University of Pelotas.
排除标准
- •Illiterate patients; Patients who do not have their own cell phone
结局指标
主要结局
Change from Chemotherapy Side Effects - QLQ-C30 EORTC questionnaire
时间窗: Up to 4 month
To measure the side effects, the QLQ-C30 EORTC questionnaire is going to be used. This questionnaire aims to identify if the patient had nausea and vomit, diarrhea, pain, fever, constipation, diarrhea, gas, among other symptoms. It will be investigated if patients who will receive the text message will have less side effects than patients who will not receive text messages. The questionnaire will be applied to each patient in the study at the beginning of the second,third and fourth cycles of chemotherapy.
次要结局
- Change from Anxiety and Depression - HADS (Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale) questionnaire(Up to 4 month)
研究者
Samanta Winck Madruga
Hospital Escola
Federal University of Pelotas