Chronic Cancer Pain Management Program

NCT ID: NCT06101849

Last Updated: 2025-11-25

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

23 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2024-01-03

Study Completion Date

2025-05-30

Brief Summary

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The goal of this research study is to evaluate an online inter-professional pain management program for survivors of breast cancer.

The main questions it aims to answer:

1. whether this treatment will help address the pain management concerns of patients,
2. whether it is feasible to offer this treatment in the future as multi-centre randomized controlled trial (RCT).

Participants will be asked to attend a 6-week online pain management group sessions (1h/week). Participants will also be asked to fill out questionnaires before and after the program completion.

Detailed Description

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Survivors of breast cancer often experience chronic pain that is undertreated and gets in the way of their functioning, relationships, mental health, and quality of life. There is little research on the best ways of treating chronic pain in cancer that make good use of all the expertise offered by different health care providers such as nurses, psychologists, and physiotherapists. In addition, little is known about how to offer such a service in an online format.

This study aims to pilot an online interprofessional pain management program for survivors of breast cancer. The investigators would like to know whether this treatment will help address the pain management concerns of patients, and whether it is feasible to offer this treatment in the future as multi-centre randomized controlled trial (RCT).

Participants in the study will attend a 6-week online pain management program (I-Can-Manage-Pain after cancer) that will cover the topics of understanding cancer pain, exercises to manage pain and psychological strategies to cope with pain. Questionnaires will be administered before and after the program to assess their satisfaction and changes in outcomes related to pain, quality of life, confidence to manage their pain, and use of health care services. The feasibility of implementing the study and the program will be pre-determined by an acceptability criteria for patient recruitment, completion of questionnaires, participation in the online sessions, and satisfaction with the pain management program.

It is hoped that study findings will help inform the development of treatment programs to improve post-treatment pain management and the quality of life of survivors of breast cancer patients.

Conditions

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Breast Cancer Cancer, Treatment-Related Pain Cancer

Study Design

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Allocation Method

NA

Intervention Model

SINGLE_GROUP

A pre-post study design.
Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Cancer Pain Management Group

Participants in the study will attend a 6-week online pain management program (I-Can-Manage-Pain after cancer) that will cover the topics of understanding cancer pain, exercises to manage pain and psychological strategies to cope with pain. Questionnaires will be administered before and after the program

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

I-Can-Manage-Pain after cancer (Pain Management Program)

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

6-week online interprofessional cancer pain management program (I-Can-Manage-Pain after cancer) for survivors of breast cancer. The program will cover the topics of understanding cancer pain, exercises to manage pain and psychological strategies to cope with pain

Interventions

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I-Can-Manage-Pain after cancer (Pain Management Program)

6-week online interprofessional cancer pain management program (I-Can-Manage-Pain after cancer) for survivors of breast cancer. The program will cover the topics of understanding cancer pain, exercises to manage pain and psychological strategies to cope with pain

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

1. diagnosis of Stage 1-3 breast cancer;
2. had surgical excision at least 3 months ago;
3. completed neoadjuvant/adjuvant chemotherapy and/or radiation treatment at least 4 months ago;
4. within 5 years post active cancer treatment;
5. persistent pain within the last 3 months that is bothersome;
6. medical clearance to participate in the intervention
7. over 18 years of age;
8. verbal fluency in English;
9. have access to internet and technology to participate in the online program. Patients currently receiving adjuvant endocrine therapy or molecularly targeted therapies or who have completed these therapies within the last 5 years are eligible to participate.

Exclusion Criteria

* Participants will be excluded from the study if they:

1. demonstrate significant cognitive impairment as determined by the clinical judgment of the provider;
2. have a pre-existing non-cancer pain condition,
3. have severe emotional distress that interferes with group participation as determined by scores above 15 on the Patient Health Questionnaire-9.
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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McMaster University

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

Hamilton Health Sciences Corporation

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Karen Zhang

Clinical, Health and Rehabilitation Psychologist

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Karen Zhang, PHD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Hamilton Health Sciences Corporation

Locations

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Juravinski Cancer Centre

Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Site Status

Countries

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Canada

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Other Identifiers

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16187

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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