mHealth Behavioral Cancer Pain Intervention for Medically Undeserved Patients (ICAN-NC)
Breast Cancer
About this trial
This is an interventional treatment trial for Breast Cancer focused on measuring cancer, pain, fatigue, distress, coping, mHealth, symptom management, physical disability
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
- women with a diagnosis of any breast cancer within the last three years
- being >18 years old
- having a life expectancy of >12 months
- report experiencing pain on at least 10 days in the last month and rate their pain in the past week as a 4 or greater on a 0-10 scale. The combination of these items assess patients level of persistent pain (in the last month) and pain severity with an accurate recall period (i.e., last week; >4).
Exclusion Criteria:
- cognitive impairment as indicated by a baseline Folstein Mini-Mental Status Examination of <2588
- brain metastases
- presence of a severe psychiatric condition or a psychiatric condition (e.g., suicidal intent) that would contraindicate safe participation in the study as indicated by the medical chart, treating oncologist, or medical/study staff interactions, or 4) current or past (<6 months) engagement in PCST for cancer.
Sites / Locations
- Duke University Medical CenterRecruiting
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Experimental
No Intervention
Mobile Health Pain Coping Skills Training (mPCST)
mHealth-Education (mHealth-Ed)
Mobile Health Pain Coping Skills Training (mPCST) protocol for breast cancer survivors with persistent pain that will produce significant improvements in pain, pain disability, fatigue, physical disability, and adherence to post-treatment lifestyle recommendations that are impacted by pain (i.e., daily activity, self-monitoring of symptoms).
mHealth-Education (mHealth- Ed): Participating in mHealth will involve four 50-minute individual intervention sessions conducted over the course of 8 weeks with tele-video-conferencing at patient's community-based clinic with a nurse about cancer care.