Participatory Research for Fine-tuning of a 2.0 System to Optimise Home Management of Oral Cancer Therapies.

NCT ID: NCT02921724

Last Updated: 2021-02-26

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: UNKNOWN
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 40 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2016-01-27
• Study Completion Date: 2021-05-31

Brief Summary

This is a prospective testing-validation, interventional, non-pharmacological study on a new app for oral anticancer therapy management.

A total of 80 patients will be considered: 20 evaluable patients in the training step; 60 patients in the validation step. In the training step will be considered evaluable the patients with: at least 6 weeks of treatment; visit at 6 weeks after the start of treatment performed and questionnaires self-administered.

Patients will be visited every 6 weeks. In the training step, patients will remain under observation for a minimum of 6 weeks, until change of therapy (due to progression of disease, unacceptable toxicity, death, discontinuation) or for a maximum of 12 weeks. Patients enrolled in the validation step will remain under observation until change of therapy (due to progression of disease, unacceptable toxicity, death, discontinuation) or for a maximum of 24 weeks.

The objective of this study is to assess the capability of a newly developed interactive health care application to support patients and health professionals in the shared management of oral anticancer therapies, improving adherence, preventing complications at home, toxicities, improper treatment reductions or interruptions, emergency accesses and to assess the system usability and acceptability by patients and health professionals, integration in the hospital workflow, monitoring over time patient perceived levels of quality of care, quality of life, social support, anxiety, and self-care capability.

Detailed Description

This is a prospective, interventional, non pharmacological study for testing-validation of a new app for optimising home management of oral therapies for cancer treatment.

All patients will be treated according to the local clinical practice. Enrolment period: 8 (training step) + 12 (validation step) months. Total duration of the study: 36 months. This is a multicenter study. Objective of the study is to assess the capability of a newly developed interactive health care application to support patients and health professionals in the shared management of oral anticancer therapies, and to assess the system usability and acceptability by patients and health professionals.

Eligible patients must meet the following criteria:

• adult 18-75 years old;
• Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status ≤ 1;
• candidate for treatment with capecitabine or sunitinib as monotherapy (adjuvant and advanced settings allowed);
• sufficient ability to manage mobile devices after basic training course held at baseline;
• clear understanding of the Italian language;
• written informed consent.

Health professionals and patients define the items of the system through participatory design techniques (e.g. focus group sessions, joint review).

To define whether the system is capable of monitoring patient adherence, the number of pills counted by the system (self-reported by the patient at home) will be compared with that counted by the physician as residual pills returned by the patient at the hospital visit. A difference in the number of pills within +/- 10% will be considered acceptable. A comparison of type and grade of toxicity will be made between the adverse events indicated by the system and those reported by the patient at the clinical visit. The quality of the system will be considered adequate if all the grade 3 and at least 80% of the grade 2 or more toxicity data reported by the patient at the time of the visit is recorded in the app.

To investigate system usability and acceptability, Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-General (FACT-G) and Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) questionnaires will be used. Scores will be subdivided into different subscales and analyzed using the Wilcoxon rank-sum test. Two new questionnaires have been developed and will be used to evaluate patient expectations of the system, and system acceptability + patient-doctor communication. An internationally validated questionnaire translated into Italian on system usability (SUS) will be also administered at the end of observation. Conversational interviews will be audio-recorded, transcribed and analyzed.

Conditions

Cancer; Oral Drug Administration

Study Design

• Allocation Method: NA
• Intervention Model: SINGLE_GROUP
• Primary Study Purpose: HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

Cancer patients undergoing oral therapy

At the time of therapy prescription, patients candidate for oral therapy with capecitabine or sunitinib will be provided with informations on the side-effects of therapy and on the use and functions of the mobile diary app TreC-Onco. Patients are required to manually insert data into the mobile diary app at least once a day. Patients will be visited every 6 weeks. During the visit, the clinician will compare adherence and toxicity data entered into the mobile diary app with those directly reported by the patient and by drug accountability.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

TreC-Onco

Intervention Type: DEVICE

TreC-Onco is composed of two tools aimed at supporting patient self-care and health professional monitoring and intervention:

1. Mobile diary app. This is an Android app (for Android version 2.2 and higher) that allows patients to record parameters related to their health state (e.g. medications; blood pressure, weight, fever; side-effects or other symptoms) through a mobile device. Data are stored in a central database and are made available in real time to health professionals through a web dashboard on the TreC server or through a tablet app.

2. Web dashboard. Through this, oncologists can check patient data, monitoring their side-effects and adherence to prescriptions. The Dashboard is optimized for the Firefox browser in version 7 or higher.

Interventions

TreC-Onco

TreC-Onco is composed of two tools aimed at supporting patient self-care and health professional monitoring and intervention:

1. Mobile diary app. This is an Android app (for Android version 2.2 and higher) that allows patients to record parameters related to their health state (e.g. medications; blood pressure, weight, fever; side-effects or other symptoms) through a mobile device. Data are stored in a central database and are made available in real time to health professionals through a web dashboard on the TreC server or through a tablet app.

2. Web dashboard. Through this, oncologists can check patient data, monitoring their side-effects and adherence to prescriptions. The Dashboard is optimized for the Firefox browser in version 7 or higher.

Intervention Type: DEVICE

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• ECOG-Performance Status (PS) less or equal to 1;
• life expectancy > 12 weeks;
• candidate for treatment with capecitabine or sunitinib as monotherapy (adjuvant and advanced settings allowed);
• clear understanding of the Italian language;
• subjects who are, in the opinion of the Investigator, able to understand this study, to cooperate with the study procedures and able to manage mobile devices after basic training course held at baseline;
• written informed consent

Exclusion Criteria

• Patients receiving also intravenous anticancer treatment

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 75 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Kessler Foundation

OTHER

Sponsor Role: collaborator

Istituto Romagnolo per lo Studio dei Tumori Dino Amadori IRST S.r.l. IRCCS

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

Alessandro Passardi, MD

Role: STUDY_CHAIR

IRST IRCCS, Meldola (FC)

Locations

Azienda Ospedaliera Papa Giovanni XXIII, Bergamo

Bergamo, , Italy

Irst-Irccs

Meldola (FC), , Italy

Azienda Provinciale per i Servizi Sanitari della Provincia Autonoma di Trento

Trento, , Italy

Countries

Italy

References

Passardi A, Foca F, Caffo O, Tondini CA, Zambelli A, Vespignani R, Bartolini G, Sullo FG, Andreis D, Dianti M, Eccher C, Piras EM, Forti S. A Remote Monitoring System to Optimize the Home Management of Oral Anticancer Therapies (ONCO-TreC): Prospective Training-Validation Trial. J Med Internet Res. 2022 Jan 26;24(1):e27349. doi: 10.2196/27349.

Reference Type: DERIVED

PMID: 35080505 (View on PubMed)

Passardi A, Rizzo M, Maines F, Tondini C, Zambelli A, Vespignani R, Andreis D, Massa I, Dianti M, Forti S, Piras EM, Eccher C. Optimisation and validation of a remote monitoring system (Onco-TreC) for home-based management of oral anticancer therapies: an Italian multicentre feasibility study. BMJ Open. 2017 May 29;7(5):e014617. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2016-014617.

Reference Type: DERIVED

PMID: 28554917 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

IRST100.18

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id