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Treating Pain in Children With Cancer: Pain Buddy
Sponsor: University of California, Irvine
Summary
The purpose of this study is to examine the feasibility of the ambulatory monitoring protocol, called Pain Buddy, in documenting children's pain, symptoms and quality of life while receiving outpatient chemotherapy. The long term goal of Pain Buddy is to help doctors, nurses, and parents get the information they need to give children treatments for pain and symptom management that work. Using Pain Buddy, we aim to quantify the prevalence and intensity of daily pain and symptom episodes in children at home, data that will be used to develop a psychosocial intervention to be delivered electronically to children at home with a goal of improving quality of life. Secondary aims also include examining children's quality of life pre- and post- Pain Buddy and satisfaction with the use of Pain Buddy. This project has the potential to improve the quality of life of tens of thousands of children suffering from cancer each year using transformative mobile health information technology based approach to pain assessment and management.
Official title: Mobile Technology to Improve Pain and Symptoms in Children With Cancer
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
8 Years - 18 Years
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
407
Start Date
2019-08-01
Completion Date
2025-06-30
Last Updated
2026-07-24
Healthy Volunteers
No
Conditions
Interventions
Pain Buddy
Pain Buddy is a user interface (application) which contains a personalized avatar (Pain Buddy) to guide children and parents through daily diary entries using mobile devices. The Pain Buddy application has been designed to be used with children age 8-18, receiving outpatient chemotherapy, as well as their parents. Pain Buddy will capture real time pain data from patients and that will ultimately allow for remote monitoring of patient symptoms. Remote symptom monitoring in real time will provide an opportunity for implementation of appropriate interventions, thereby introducing the potential to decrease pain and symptoms and improve quality of life in children with cancer. The use of symptom monitoring and skills training will further increase patient engagement in healthcare.
Locations (1)
University of California, Irvine
Orange, California, United States