Cancer, Side Effect
Conditions
Brief summary
This study evaluates the text message (SMS) with orientation to help the management of chemotherapy treatment.
Detailed description
The investigators developed an app (called ChemotherApp) for Android that automatically sends text messages with homecare orientation to cancer patients in intervention group. The main features of this app are: to register information such as name, number of cellphone, gender, and chemotherapy schedule of the patient. Other feature is to register the orientation that will be sent to patients by text messages. Daily, the app send a registered orientation to each patient.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALText message intervention
The intervention consists in sending text messages with orientation that helps in homecare, specifically attempting to minimize chemotherapy side effects.
Sponsors
Samanta Winck Madruga
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to 70 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* Cancer patients who will start chemotherapy treatment in Hospital Escola of Federal University of Pelotas.
Exclusion criteria
* Illiterate patients; Patients who do not have their own cell phone
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Change from Chemotherapy Side Effects - QLQ-C30 EORTC questionnaire | Up to 4 month | To measure the side effects, the QLQ-C30 EORTC questionnaire is going to be used. This questionnaire aims to identify if the patient had nausea and vomit, diarrhea, pain, fever, constipation, diarrhea, gas, among other symptoms. It will be investigated if patients who will receive the text message will have less side effects than patients who will not receive text messages. The questionnaire will be applied to each patient in the study at the beginning of the second,third and fourth cycles of chemotherapy. |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Change from Anxiety and Depression - HADS (Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale) questionnaire | Up to 4 month | To measure anxiety and depression, the HADS (Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale) questionnaire is going to be used. It will be investigated if patients who will receive the text message will have less score of depression and anxiety than patients who will not receive text messages. The HADS questionnaire is going to be applied to each patient on the first day of treatment and at the beginning of the fourth cycle of chemotherapy. |
Other
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Change from ECOG (The Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group) scale - performance status - well-being | Up to 4 month | ECOG (The Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group) scale will be used to evaluate the performance status,to measure the well-being. It will be investigated if patients who will receive the text message will have better performance status than patients who will not receive text messages. A performance status will be evaluated at the beginning of treatment and at the beginning of the second cycle of chemotherapy. |
Countries
Brazil
Contacts
Primary ContactSamanta Madruga, Dr.
Backup ContactTimoteo Rico
Outcome results
None listed