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

NCT ID: NCT02559375

Last Updated: 2019-07-23

Study Results

Results pending

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Total Enrollment

466 participants

Study Classification

OBSERVATIONAL

Study Start Date

2014-09-30

Study Completion Date

2015-09-30

Brief Summary

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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

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Conditions

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Cancer

Study Design

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Observational Model Type

COHORT

Study Time Perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Interventions

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Survey

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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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
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Abramson Cancer Center at Penn Medicine

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Jun Mao, MD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Abramson Cancer Center at Penn Medicine

Locations

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Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Site Status

Countries

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United States

Other Identifiers

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UPCC 26914

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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