Clinical trial · Interventional
Healing Gardens: Leveraging Serious Games to Deliver Accessible Pain-CBT and Pharmacologic Support for Patients With Advanced Cancer Managing Pain
NCT07825051CI-TRIAL-00126405not yet recruitingN/AClinicalTrials.gov clinicaltrialsProvenance
- Source
- ClinicalTrials.gov
- Retrieved
- Sep 18, 2026
- Layer
- normalized (units and labels harmonized; values unchanged)
- Run
- ING-CLINICALTRIALS-20260918-000001
Summary
Brief summary (as posted)
This study is being done to determine the feasibility and acceptability of Healing Gardens, a standalone mobile health serious game designed to deliver pain-CBT and cancer pain education to help patients with advanced cancer manage chronic pain.
Conditions
Conditions (3)
Free-text conditions as registered, with the CancerIndex entity they were reconciled to and the match type.
| Condition (as posted) | Mapped entity | Match | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Advanced Cancer | Malignant Neoplasm | CURATED_BROADER | 0.78 |
| Cancer Pain | — | UNRESOLVED | — |
| Chronic Pain | — | UNRESOLVED | — |
Interventions
Interventions (2)
| Intervention | Type | Mapped drug | Match |
|---|---|---|---|
| Healing Gardens content development/refinement activities | Behavioral | — | UNRESOLVED |
| Healing Gardens serious game | Behavioral | — | UNRESOLVED |
Design
Arms and outcomes
Arms (2)
- type
- ACTIVE_COMPARATOR
- label
- Content Development and Refinement
- description
- Participants complete a baseline assessment, a semi-structured interview for content development and refinement and/or optional focus groups, and usability/acceptability surveys.
- interventionNames
- Behavioral: Healing Gardens content development/refinement activities
- type
- EXPERIMENTAL
- label
- Pre-pilot User Acceptability Testing
- description
- Participants complete a baseline assessment, at-home testing of the Healing Gardens game for up to 12 weeks, a semi-structured debriefing interview, and end-of-intervention surveys.
- interventionNames
- Behavioral: Healing Gardens serious game
Primary outcomes (5)
- measure
Eligibility
Eligibility (as posted)
- Sex
- All
- Minimum age
- 18 Years
Show eligibility criteria text
Inclusion Criteria: * Age ≥ 18 years * Patient is diagnosed with a locally advanced or metastatic solid tumor malignancy, either undergoing active treatment or receiving treatment for an advanced cancer or are receiving supportive/palliative care at DFCI * Chronic pain related to cancer or treatment (\> pain score of 4 on a 0-10 scale on average over the past two weeks, Numeric Rating Scale) * Own/use a compatible device (e.g., smartphone, laptop) Exclusion Criteria: * Patients in survivorship: patients who have completed their treatment regimens, are not actively receiving curative or palliative treatment for an advanced cancer, or have a cancer that is in remission * Cognitive impairment that would interfere with study participation, as judged by the treating clinician (e.g. delirium, dementia) * Inability to speak English (the intervention has not yet been translated to other languages) * Enrolled in hospice * Currently hospitalized * Pain primarily related to a recent surgery (within the last 2 weeks) * Conditions that hinder device use (e.g., vision impairment) * We will exclude adults who are unable to consent, individuals who are not yet adults (infants, children, teenagers), pregnant women, and prisoners.
References
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