Clinical trial · Interventional
Treating Pain in Children With Cancer: Pain Buddy
Mobile Technology to Improve Pain and Symptoms in Children With Cancer
- 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)
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cancer | Malignant Neoplasm | ALIAS | 0.90 |
Interventions
Interventions (1)
| Intervention | Type | Mapped drug | Match |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pain Buddy | Other | — | UNRESOLVED |
Design
Arms and outcomes
Arms (2)
- type
- EXPERIMENTAL
- label
- Pain Buddy
- description
- Children in this condition will continue with the care that has been prescribed for cancer- and chemotherapy-related pain and symptoms, which may include medications, medical visits, physical interventions, etc. Participants in this condition will complete daily diaries using Pain Buddy and will also be taught cognitive and behavioral coping skills, like deep breathing, imagery, and relaxation, to deal with pain and symptoms. The skills will be taught through the electronic tablet. Pain and symptom information, collected daily by Pain Buddy, will be sent to a health care provider on the oncology treatment team, who will contact patients when certain thresholds are reached and will instruct the patients on best ways to control pain and symptoms.
- interventionNames
- Other: Pain Buddy
- type
- NO_INTERVENTION
- label
- Control
- description
- Children in this condition will continue with the care that has been prescribed for cancer- and chemotherapy-related pain and symptoms, which may include medications, medical visits, physical interventions, etc. Participants in this condition will complete daily pain diaries using Pain Buddy, but will not receive skills training or remote monitoring of data.
Primary outcomes (1)
Eligibility
Eligibility (as posted)
- Sex
- All
- Minimum age
- 8 Years
- Maximum age
- 18 Years
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Inclusion Criteria: * Between the ages of 8-18 years * Currently undergoing outpatient treatment for cancer * Patients who are able to speak, read, and write in English. Parents who are able to speak, read, and write in English or Spanish * Have home internet access to use Pain Buddy (the internet will be used to securely send the pain information to the research team). Exclusion Criteria: * Cognitive impairment, such as a developmental delay or mental retardation that would prevent children from being able to use the Pain Buddy program. * Children diagnosed with acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) or acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) as the treatment protocols for these children are largely inpatient, precluding use of the intervention.
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