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The Pain Squad+ Smartphone App To Support Real-Time Pain Management for Adolescents With Cancer

NCT03632343 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 102

Last updated 2025-06-29

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Pain negatively affects the quality of life of adolescents with cancer (AWC). It can also represent a high cost to the healthcare system and families. In response, our team has built a smartphone-based app, called Pain Squad+, which can give AWC real-time advice to manage their pain. The app uses pain diaries and personalized pain advice plus support from a registered nurse to give real-time pain management in all settings. This study will look at the impact of Pain Squad+, with or without the nurse support, on AWC health quality and healthcare costs over time.

Conditions

  • Therapy-Associated Cancer

Interventions

OTHER

Pain Squad+ with Nurse Support

Pain Squad+ smartphone app with algorithm-driven pain management advice registered nurse (RN)-initiated pain support. Email alerts related to clinically important incoming pain reports (3 consecutive reports of pain \>3/10) will be sent to the study RN who will contact the healthcare team at the participants' home center to initiate clinician-driven intervention, which may be outside of the scope of the self-management algorithm. The RN will contact the participant within 12 hours of receiving the alert, including on weekends.

OTHER

Pain Squad+

Pain Squad+ smartphone app with algorithm-driven pain management advice without RN-initiated pain support.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • The Hospital for Sick Children

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
12 Years
Max Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2019-12-01
Primary Completion
2025-01-30
Completion
2025-01-30

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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