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| Title |
Self-management support intervention to control cancer pain in the outpatient setting: a randomized controlled trial study protocol
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| Published in |
BMC Cancer, May 2015
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| DOI | 10.1186/s12885-015-1428-1 |
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| Authors |
Laura MJ Hochstenbach, Annemie M Courtens, Sandra MG Zwakhalen, Maarten van Kleef, Luc P de Witte |
| Abstract |
Pain is a prevalent and distressing symptom in patients with cancer, having an enormous impact on functioning and quality of life. Fragmentation of care, inadequate pain communication, and reluctance towards pain medication contribute to difficulties in optimizing outcomes. Integration of patient self-management and professional care by means of healthcare technology provides new opportunities in the outpatient setting. This study protocol outlines a two-armed multicenter randomized controlled trial that compares a technology based multicomponent self-management support intervention with care as usual and includes an effect, cost and process evaluation. Patients will be recruited consecutively via the outpatient oncology clinics and inpatient oncology wards of one academic hospital and one regional hospital in the south of the Netherlands. Irrespective of the stage of disease, patients are eligible when they are diagnosed with cancer and have uncontrolled moderate to severe cancer (treatment) related pain defined as NRS ≥ 4 for more than two weeks. Randomization (1:1) will assign patients to either the intervention or control group; patients in the intervention group receive self-management support and patients in the control group receive care as usual. The intervention will be delivered by registered nurses specialized in pain and palliative care. Important components include monitoring of pain, adverse effects and medication as well as graphical feedback, education, and nurse support. Effect measurements for both groups will be carried out with questionnaires at baseline (T0), after 4 weeks (T1) and after 12 weeks (T2). Pain intensity and quality of life are the primary outcomes. Secondary outcomes include knowledge, self-efficacy, anxiety, depression and pain medication use. The final questionnaire contains also questions for the economic evaluation that includes both cost-effectiveness and cost-utility analysis. Data for the process evaluation will be gathered continuously over the study period and focus on recruitment, reach, dose delivered and dose received. The proposed study will provide insight into the effectiveness the self-management support intervention delivered by nurses to outpatients with uncontrolled cancer pain. Study findings will be used to empower patient and health professionals to improve cancer pain control. NCT02333968 December 29, 2014. |
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| Country | Count | As % |
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| Unknown | 2 | 100% |
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| Type | Count | As % |
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| Members of the public | 2 | 100% |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
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| Spain | 1 | <1% |
| United States | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 281 | 99% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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| Student > Master | 43 | 15% |
| Student > Bachelor | 35 | 12% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 26 | 9% |
| Researcher | 25 | 9% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 21 | 7% |
| Other | 62 | 22% |
| Unknown | 71 | 25% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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| Nursing and Health Professions | 70 | 25% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 58 | 20% |
| Psychology | 19 | 7% |
| Social Sciences | 12 | 4% |
| Computer Science | 11 | 4% |
| Other | 34 | 12% |
| Unknown | 79 | 28% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 02 March 2016.
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#72
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