Pain Squad+ smartphone app to support real-time pain treatment for adolescents with cancer: protocol for a randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Pain negatively affects the health-related quality of life (HRQL) of adolescents with cancer. The Pain Squad+ smartphone-based application (app), has been developed to provide adolescents with real-time pain self-management support. The app uses a validated pain assessment and personalised pain treatment advice with centralised decision support via a registered nurse to enable real-time pain treatment in all settings. The algorithm informing pain treatment advice is evidence-based and expert-vetted. This trial will longitudinally evaluate the impact of Pain Squad+, with or without the addition of nurse support, on adolescent health and cost outcomes.

Methods and analysis

This will be a pragmatic, multicentre, waitlist controlled, 3-arm parallel-group superiority

SUBMITTER: Jibb L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7076249 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature