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

• Sponsor: Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania (Other)
• Overall Status: Completed
• CT.gov ID: NCT02559375
• Collaborator: (none)
• Enrollment: 466
• Location: 1
• Duration (Months): 12.9
• Patients Per Site Per Month: 36

Study Details

Study Description

Brief Summary

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.

Condition or Disease	Intervention/Treatment	Phase
Cancer	Other: Survey

Study Design

• Study Type: Observational
• Actual Enrollment: 466 participants
• Observational Model: Cohort
• Time Perspective: Prospective
• Official Title: PAIN-LESS: Understanding and Alleviating Pain for Cancer Patients in Academic and Community Hospitals
• Study Start Date: Sep 1, 2014
• Actual Primary Completion Date: Sep 30, 2015
• Actual Study Completion Date: Sep 30, 2015

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcome Measures

1. Number of subjects providing completed surveys [1 year]

Eligibility Criteria

Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 Years and Older
• Sexes Eligible for Study: All
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

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

Contacts and Locations

Locations

	Site	City	State	Country	Postal Code
1	Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania	United States	19104

Sponsors and Collaborators

• Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania

Investigators

• Principal Investigator: Jun Mao, MD, Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania

Study Documents (Full-Text)

None provided.

More Information

Publications

None provided.

• Responsible Party: Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania
• ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT02559375
• Other Study ID Numbers: UPCC 26914
• First Posted: Sep 24, 2015
• Last Update Posted: Jul 23, 2019
• Last Verified: Jul 1, 2019

Study Results

No Results Posted as of Jul 23, 2019