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m-Palliative Care Link: Improving Palliative Care for Late Stage Tanzanian Cancer Patients

NCT03634696 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 98

Last updated 2021-10-14

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

This work aims to improve late-stage cancer patients' access to high quality, patient-centered symptom assessment and control via the creation, field test, and outcomes assessment of a scalable mobile application (mPalliative Care Link; mPCL)-built around a locally-validated Palliative care Outcome Scale- that links a limited pool of existing Tanzanian palliative care specialists with patients, lay/family caregivers, and local health workers.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

mPCL

Smart phone application to support palliative care among late-stage cancer patients

OTHER

Usual Care

Usual care through OCRI palliative care clinic

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • MaineHealth

    collaborator OTHER

  • National Institutes of Health (NIH)

    collaborator NIH

  • Dimagi Inc.

    collaborator INDUSTRY

  • Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences

    collaborator OTHER

  • Fogarty International Center of the National Institute of Health

    collaborator NIH

  • Susan Miesfeldt

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Susan Miesfeldt, MD · MaineHealth

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
21 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-06-15
Primary Completion
2019-08-09
Completion
2021-07-20

Countries

  • Tanzania

Study Locations

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Diseases

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