Clinical trial · Observational
PainSquad+: A Smartphone App to Support Real-time Pain Management for Adolescents With Cancer
PainSquad+: A Smartphone App to Support Real-time Pain Management for Adolescents
- Source
- ClinicalTrials.gov
- Retrieved
- Sep 8, 2026
- Layer
- normalized (units and labels harmonized; values unchanged)
- Run
- ING-CLINICALTRIALS-20260908-000001
Summary
Brief summary (as posted)
Adolescents with cancer (AWC) are in a unique developmental stage that may mean pain characteristics, the impact of pain, and pain treatment outcomes are different in adolescents compared to children and adults. In response, we will develop and test the PainSquad+ pain management smartphone app. First, we will conduct usability testing to refine PainSquad+ so that it is useable, acceptable and understandable for AWC. Secondly we will: (a) test the feasibility of conducting a large-scale PainSquad+ experiment and (b) begin to examine how effective PainSquad+ is at helping adolescents manage pain. We hope that once developed and tested for effectiveness, PainSquad+ will improve pain treatment and ultimately quality of life in AWC.
Conditions
Conditions (1)
Free-text conditions as registered, with the CancerIndex entity they were reconciled to and the match type.
| Condition (as posted) | Mapped entity | Match | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Therapy-Associated Cancer | — | UNRESOLVED | — |
Interventions
Interventions (0)
Data not yet available
Design
Arms and outcomes
Arms (0)
[]Primary outcomes (10)
- measure
- Accrual and attrition rates
- timeFrame
- 12 months
- description
- The Cancer Pain Management App Recruitment Log has been designed to record data related to the number of eligible adolescents per recruitment day, reasons for ineligibility, and reasons for nonparticipation. The Cancer Pain Management App Activity Log has been designed to record data on attrition (occurrence/reasons for attrition), as well as technical difficulties, adherence and outcome measure completion.
- measure
- Technical difficulties
- timeFrame
- 12 months
- description
- The occurrence and description of technical problems will be recorded on the Cancer Pain Management App Activity Log.
- measure
- Acceptability
- timeFrame
- 12 months
- description
- The Acceptability E-Scale (AES) ascertains perceptions related to how helpful, difficult, and enjoyable e-based programs are to use, how understandable questions are, and how acceptable the time invested in reporting was (Wu, Johnson, Schepp, \& Berry, 2011). For the purpose of the present study, the wording of the AES will be slightly modified. Specifically, the words "computer program" will be changed to "app" and open-ended questions regarding study acceptability will be added.
Eligibility
Eligibility (as posted)
- Sex
- All
- Minimum age
- 12 Years
- Maximum age
- 18 Years
Show eligibility criteria text
Inclusion Criteria: * aged 12-18 years, * able to speak and read English * actively undergoing cancer treatment on an in- or out-patient basis * being at least 3 months from diagnosis * having self-reported pain of any intensity in the week immediately prior to recruitment Exclusion Criteria: * one or more major co-morbid (medical or psychiatric) conditions that would preclude use of a smartphone * palliative/end-of-life patients.
References
Publications (2)
- RESULTJibb LA, Cafazzo JA, Nathan PC, Seto E, Stevens BJ, Nguyen C, Stinson JN. Development of a mHealth Real-Time Pain Self-Management App for Adolescents With Cancer: An Iterative Usability Testing Study [Formula: see text]. J Pediatr Oncol Nurs. 2017 Jul/Aug;34(4):283-294. doi: 10.1177/1043454217697022. Epub 2017 Apr 4. PMID 28376666
- RESULTJibb LA, Stevens BJ, Nathan PC, Seto E, Cafazzo JA, Johnston DL, Hum V, Stinson JN. Implementation and preliminary effectiveness of a real-time pain management smartphone app for adolescents with cancer: A multicenter pilot clinical study. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2017 Oct;64(10). doi: 10.1002/pbc.26554. Epub 2017 Apr 19. PMID 28423223