Clinical trial · Interventional
Initial Testing of a Mobile App Pain Coping Intervention for Outpatient Oncology Settings (PainPac)
Initial Testing of a Mobile App Pain Coping Intervention for Outpatient Oncology Settings
- 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)
PainPac is innovative in its potential to integrate with healthcare systems through electronic medical records (EMRs). PainPac leverages technology to increase patient access to interventions and uses real-time assessment to improve care. PainPac is positioned to rapidly provide improved care through combining biological data (e.g., EMRs, patient collected) with behavioral data to dramatically improve outcomes. PainPac could track beneficial outcomes related to clinical pain scores (e.g., patients with scores 4-8 benefit) and intervention implementation could be based on this; a more advanced possibility is use of geospatial tracking to predict space/time where pain is likely to impact functioning and push an intervention strategy - behavioral or pharmacological. PainPac is designed for future transmission of data to EMRs to inform providers of patient status. This work will provide data to bypass traditional efficacy trials and move quickly to a large effectiveness trial.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Colorectal Cancer | Malignant Colorectal Neoplasm | CURATED_BROADER | 0.80 |
Interventions
Interventions (1)
| Intervention | Type | Mapped drug | Match |
|---|---|---|---|
| PainPac | Behavioral | — | UNRESOLVED |
Design
Arms and outcomes
Arms (2)
- type
- EXPERIMENTAL
- label
- PainPac
- description
- 4 behavioral cancer pain intervention sessions delivered by mobile application. Patient-focused intervention. PainPac uses Social Cognitive Theory to promote behaviors to improve pain, self-efficacy for pain management, and pain-related quality of life indices. It also uses real-time data to personalize the intervention and messaging to participants. The app also has interactive components to improve coping skills engagement.
- interventionNames
- Behavioral: PainPac
- type
- NO_INTERVENTION
- label
- PCST-Video
- description
- 4 behavioral cancer pain intervention sessions delivered by videoconferencing by a pain therapist in the medical center to the patient in their natural environment (e.g., home). Sessions will be scheduled weekly for 45-60 min and mimic in person sessions. PCST-Video session content is matches the PainPac skills modules. PCST-Video participants will complete assessments at the same intervals as PainPac participants.
Primary outcomes (6)
Eligibility
Eligibility (as posted)
- Sex
- All
- Minimum age
- 18 Years
Show eligibility criteria text
Inclusion Criteria: * Stage I-IV Colorectal Cancer diagnosis * 18 years of age or older Exclusion Criteria: * Cognitive Impairment * Brain Metastases * Severe psychiatric condition (e.g., psychosis) that would contraindicate safe participation * Participation in behavioral pain management in the past 6 months.
References
Publications (1)
- DERIVEDKelleher SA, Fisher HM, Chou N, Diachina AK, Winger JG, Uronis HE, Keefe FJ, Somers TJ. Initial testing of a mobile app behavioral pain coping intervention for patients with cancer: Results of a pilot randomized controlled trial. J Psychosoc Oncol. 2026 Apr 8:1-28. doi: 10.1080/07347332.2026.2652946. Online ahead of print. PMID 41950509