Clinical trial · Interventional
Electronic Symptom Monitoring of Patient-Reported Outcomes Among Patients With Hepatocellular Carcinoma During Immunotherapy (PRIME-HCC): Protocol for a Randomised Controlled Trial
- 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 goal of this clinical trial is to design a digital PRO intervention model applicable to patients with hepatocellular carcinoma, and The main questions it aims to answer are: * Can symptom management through patients' regular completion of the PRO scale promote self-understanding, self-management and timely seeking of medical help, enable healthcare professionals to accurately and efficiently understand how patients really feel and respond in a timely manner, and ultimately improve health outcomes? * Can digital interventions significantly improve outcomes such as symptom control and quality of life in cancer patients? Researchers divided participants into an intervention group and a control group and compared them to see if digital interventions could improve patient health outcomes. Participants will: * Subjects in the intervention group will be asked to report symptom information weekly (7-day natural week, hereafter) via the public number, and the back office will give symptom management advice or issue alerts based on the filling. Control subjects will not receive PRO intervention. * Participants can offer to withdraw from the study at any time.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC) | Hepatocellular Carcinoma | ONTOLOGY_EXACT | 0.85 |
Interventions
Interventions (1)
| Intervention | Type | Mapped drug | Match |
|---|---|---|---|
| Digitized patient-reported outcomes | Behavioral | — | UNRESOLVED |
Design
Arms and outcomes
Arms (2)
- type
- EXPERIMENTAL
- label
- Intervention Group: receive PRO（patient reported outcomes） interventions
- interventionNames
- Behavioral: Digitized patient-reported outcomes
- type
- NO_INTERVENTION
- label
- Control Group：usual care (not receive PRO intervention)
Primary outcomes (1)
- measure
- Health-Related quality of life
- timeFrame
- Baseline, Week 4 (post-intervention),Week 18(post-intervention)
- description
- EORTC QLQ-C30 Quality of Life Scale(European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life Questionnaire) The EORTC QLQ-C30 (Version 3) uses for the questions 1 to 28 a 4-point scale. The scale scores from 1 to 4: 1 ("Not at all"), 2 ("A little"), 3 ("Quite a bit") and 4 ("Very much"). Half points are not allowed. The range is 3. For the raw score, less points are considered to have a better outcome. The EORTC QLQ-C30 (Version 3) uses for the questions 29 and 30 a 7-points scale. The scale scores from 1 to 7: 1 ("very poor") to 7 ("excellent"). Half points are not allowed. The range is 6. First of all, raw score has to be calculated with mean values. Afterwards linear transformation is performed to be comparable. More points are considered to have a better outcome.
Eligibility
Eligibility (as posted)
- Sex
- All
- Minimum age
- 18 Years
- Maximum age
- 75 Years
Show eligibility criteria text
The inclusion criteria for the participants are: (1) aged 18 to 75 years, (2) clinically diagnosed as HCC, (3) treated with immunotherapy, (4) able and willing to use smartphones or tablets to complete the follow-up process according to protocol and (5) can understand Mandarin Chinese. The exclusion criteria are: (1) cognitive deficits that would preclude recognizing of their own symptoms and feelings, (2) unable to understand the research content and/or questionnaires, (3) is going to take or having taken surgical resection or liver transplant, (4) currently participating in other clinical trials that may affect this study, or (5) having other malignant tumours.
References
Publications (1)
- DERIVEDXia Y, Wei X, Wang Y, Shi Z, He P. Electronic symptom monitoring of patient-reported outcomes among patients with hepatocellular carcinoma during immunotherapy (PRIME-HCC): protocol for a randomised controlled trial. BMJ Open. 2026 May 11;16(5):e116199. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2026-116199. PMID 42114858