Real-time Cancer Pain Assessment and Intervention
Malignancy, Pain
About this trial
This is an interventional supportive care trial for Malignancy focused on measuring malignancy, solid tumor, cancer pain
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
- Solid tumors confirmed by pathology or cytology
- Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group Performance Status: 0-2
- sign the informed consent form
- good compliance, willing to comply with the requirements of the study
- anticipate survival time more than 3 months
- pain intensity is greater than 2 points according to numerical rating scale on enrollment; have indication of opioid analgesic drugs.
- can express subjective feelings of pain intensity clearly.
- own a smartphone or tablet device which can install and use the application program software, and can operate the software proficiently.
Exclusion Criteria:
- poor compliance, refuse to sign the informed consent form, or difficult to comply with the requirement of the study.
- slight pain or no pain, no indication of opioid analgesic drugs.
- contraindication of opioid analgesic drugs
- no other medical workers give instructions during the study.
Sites / Locations
- Sun Yat-sen University Cancer CenterRecruiting
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Experimental
Experimental
standard cancer pain care
real-time monitoring and instruction of cancer pain
the standard cancer pain care group: 1.will be follow-up by the cancer nurse once a week to acknowledge the cancer pain intensity, the current analgesic medication, and the side effects. and also give recommendations. 2.filled in the patient'diary and hand over to researchers.
real-time monitoring and treatment instruction of cancer pain group 1.follow the same pattern of standard cancer pain care. 2. using the cloud computing concept system, install the software in the mobile phone of patients. the patients will fill in the content of brief pain inventory, medication and side effect, and upload to researchers every 2 days. 3. Researcher monitor the cancer pain treatment in realtime and give instructions.