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NCT Number: NCT02559375

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

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.

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Key information

Conditions

Cancer Neoplasms

Age range

18 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Observational

Primary location

Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19104, United States

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

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

Treatment and study plan

Survey

Other

Primary outcomes

  1. Number of subjects providing completed surveys

    Time frame: 1 year

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Abramson Cancer Center at Penn Medicine

Other

Registry information

Important dates

Study start
2014
Primary completion
2015
Study completion
2015
First posted
Sep 24, 2015
Registry last updated
Jul 23, 2019

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This listing is for discovery and informational purposes only. It is not medical advice, does not guarantee that a study is recruiting, and does not determine eligibility. Contact the study team and a qualified healthcare professional when considering participation.

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