The purpose of this study is to determine whether the Intelligent Pain Management System (IPMS) could make recording and interfering pain timely among cancer patients with pain. The system's usability, feasibility, compliance, and satisfaction will also be assessed.
Research indicate that over one-third of cancer patients experienced cancer pain, which is known as a major reason leading to lower quality of life of the patients.In this present study, the investigators aim to design, develop, and test the feasibility of a low cost, conveniently implemented mobile application to facilitate real-time pain recording and timely intervention among Chinese cancer patients with pain. This system evaluate real-time pain and Karnofsky Performance Status（KPS）scores for quality of life, and to generate an action plan to visit the physician or to adjust pain medication dosage when the pain threshold is reached. The investigators study is to test this system's effectiveness.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
46
A mobile phone application which can record the pain the cancer patients have and can deliver these records to doctors in order that doctors give patients prescriptions promptly.
Xinhua Translational Institute for Cancer Pain, Shanghai
Shanghai, Shanghai Municipality, China
Feasibility of Mobile Application Assessed by Observing the Number of Daily Pain Assessments Recorded Among Patients
The primary objective is to demonstrate that this mobile application is feasible by observing the numbers of daily pain assessment among patients.
Time frame: 2 weeks
Pain Management
Numerical rating scale allows a person to describe the intensity of his/her pain as a number usually ranging from 0 to 10, where "0" means "no pain" and "10" means pain as "bad as it could be". Higher values means worse outcomes. The investigators will compare average pain score assessed by numerical rating scale at the end of the trial period.
Time frame: 2 weeks
Users' Satisfaction (Questionnaire)
Patients will be asked to complete a questionnaire after patients use it for 2 weeks.
Time frame: 2 weeks
Karnofsky Performance Score Evaluation
The Karnofsky performance score runs from 100 to 0, where 100 is "perfect" health and 0 is death. Higher values represent better outcomes.The investigators will compare average score between trial group and control group.
Time frame: 2 weeks
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