NCT01310387

Prospective Study of Active Pain Management in Lung Cancer Outpatients (APM)

A Randomized Prospective Controlled Study of Active Pain Management in Lung Cancer Outpatients (APM)

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 3
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 79 (actual)
• Sponsor: Chonnam National University Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 20 Years – 80 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study is: * A single-center, randomized, prospective controlled trial. * To prove superiority of active pain management group compared to control group by the percent of pain intensity difference of outpatients with lung cancer pain. * 204 patients will be recruited.

Detailed description

* The recruited patients in both group will be provided the education about pain-killer, and received medicines including opioids according to their numeric rating scale (NRS) * Active management group will be provided additional telephone counseling and dosage modification by specialized nurse for cancer pain. * The percent of pain intensity difference (%PID) * PID = (NRS of visit 1 - NRS of visit 3)/NRS of visit 1

Conditions

• Lung Cancer

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Active pain management	Active pain management will be provided by specialized pain nurse, such as telephone counseling for toxicity control and opioid dose modification.

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-01-01
• Primary completion: 2012-01-01
• Completion: 2012-06-01
• First posted: 2011-03-08
• Last updated: 2016-02-05

Locations

1 site across 1 country: South Korea