PAIN-LESS: Understanding and Alleviating Pain for Cancer Patients in Academic and Community Hospitals

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT02559375

Enrollment

466

Registered

2015-09-24

Start date

2014-09-30

Completion date

2015-09-30

Last updated

2019-07-23

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Conditions

Cancer

Brief summary

This study will increase knowledge of patient preferences for pain treatments, and improve the ability to meet patients pain management needs. This study will assess patient attitudes towards underutilized treatments and identify technologies to increase awareness of such treatments. This study also demonstrate the feasibility of using the Penn Cancer Network in future clinical and cancer control research and better understand how to effectively raise patients awareness of supportive cancer services.

Interventions

OTHERSurvey

Study design

Observational model

COHORT

Time perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

18 Years to No maximum

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

* Age 18 or older; Have a primary diagnosis of cancer; * Have a Karnofsky functional score of 60 or greater (i.e. ambulatory); * Understand written English; * Verbally indicate to the RA/RN that they feel physically well enough to complete a survey at the time of approach; * Report experiencing nonzero pain (on a scale of 0-10) in the last seven days

Exclusion criteria

* An inability to understand the requirements of the survey

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Number of subjects providing completed surveys	1 year

Countries

United States

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026