This study evaluates the text message (SMS) with orientation to help the management of chemotherapy treatment.
The investigators developed an app (called ChemotherApp) for Android that automatically sends text messages with homecare orientation to cancer patients in intervention group. The main features of this app are: to register information such as name, number of cellphone, gender, and chemotherapy schedule of the patient. Other feature is to register the orientation that will be sent to patients by text messages. Daily, the app send a registered orientation to each patient.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
80
The intervention consists in sending text messages with orientation that helps in homecare, specifically attempting to minimize chemotherapy side effects.
Federal University of Pelotas
Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
RECRUITINGChange from Chemotherapy Side Effects - QLQ-C30 EORTC questionnaire
To measure the side effects, the QLQ-C30 EORTC questionnaire is going to be used. This questionnaire aims to identify if the patient had nausea and vomit, diarrhea, pain, fever, constipation, diarrhea, gas, among other symptoms. It will be investigated if patients who will receive the text message will have less side effects than patients who will not receive text messages. The questionnaire will be applied to each patient in the study at the beginning of the second,third and fourth cycles of chemotherapy.
Time frame: Up to 4 month
Change from Anxiety and Depression - HADS (Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale) questionnaire
To measure anxiety and depression, the HADS (Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale) questionnaire is going to be used. It will be investigated if patients who will receive the text message will have less score of depression and anxiety than patients who will not receive text messages. The HADS questionnaire is going to be applied to each patient on the first day of treatment and at the beginning of the fourth cycle of chemotherapy.
Time frame: Up to 4 month
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