Determine the acceptability and feasibility of a supportive care software platform to improve quality of life and function in metastatic breast cancer patients. Acceptability will be defined as the proportion of women offered the intervention who agree to participate. Feasibility will be defined as the proportion of women who consent, take a tablet home, who actually interact with the tablet and participate at least one month of the program.
Goals of the Nurse AMIE software program are to regularly assess psychosocial, functional, and symptom needs among metastatic breast cancer patients and to provide appropriate interventions via YouTube style videos, weekly phone calls with a patient navigator at Penn State, and appropriate referrals to phone or in person consultations as needed. The proposed Nurse AMIE software program will allow for the provision of resources (YouTube style videos, audio files, exercises) to intervene on many of the common symptoms and challenges experienced by metastatic patients. This is an identified need on the part of both metastatic patients and their medical care teams. Finally, it will also allow patient navigators to check in with patients, reviewing responses to surveys, discerning whether new or different interventions are needed, and connecting women to palliative care and other services if additional care is warranted.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
21
Patient will receive the tablet, a pedometer (to track their steps) and an exercise band (to complete the exercise videos). Use of Nurse AMIE while receiving intervention phone calls from a patient navigator. After 90 days, observation begins and the patient will be asked to continue using Nurse AMIE without a patient navigator's presence.
Penn State Cancer Institute
Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States
Feasibility of the Application: The proportion of women who consent, take a tablet home, who actually interact with the tablet and participate at least one month of the program.
Feasibility is defined as the proportion of women who consent, take a tablet home, who actually interact with the tablet and participate at least one month of the program.
Time frame: 3 Months
Acceptability of the Application: The proportion of patients who agree to participate among those deemed eligible and cleared by oncologist.
The proportion of patients who agree to participate among those deemed eligible and cleared by oncologist.
Time frame: 3 Months
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