NCT02601755

iCanCope With Pain: A Smartphone and Web Self-management Program for Adolescents and Young Adults With Chronic Pain

iCanCope With Pain: An Integrated Smartphone and Web Self-management Program for Adolescents and Young Adults With Chronic Pain

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 302 (actual)
• Sponsor: The Hospital for Sick Children · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 15 Years – 25 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Chronic pain in adolescents and young adults (AYA, aged 15-25) is a common problem. Pain that is not treated properly can reduce quality of life. Programs to help AYA learn to live with and manage pain are very important. Our team is developing a smartphone application (app) and website for AYA with chronic pain. The app will help AYA to track pain, sleep, mood, activities, and exercise and help AYA set and achieve goals. The website will give information about pain and how to manage it independently. We will build the program and make sure it is easy to use and understand. We will also test if the program can be put into practice as planned and if AYA using the program feel less pain, have less limitations, and a better quality of life.

Conditions

• Chronic Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	iCanCope app and website	In addition to standard medical care, adolescents and young adults in the experimental group will receive access to the "iCanCope with Pain" smartphone app and website for 8 weeks. The app consists of daily pain symptom tracking (pain intensity, sleep, mood, physical activity, and fatigue), goal setting, in-the moment coping strategies, as well as a social community component. The website provides chronic pain-specific education, self-management strategies, and resources.
BEHAVIORAL	Attention control group	The control group is designed to control for the potential effects on outcomes of time, attention, smartphone and computer use during the intervention. In addition to standard medical care, adolescents and young adults in the attention control group will receive access to the "iCanCope with Pain" smartphone app (control version, with limited functionality), and a pain resource website without access to self-management strategies.

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-04-01
• Primary completion: 2023-08-01
• Completion: 2023-08-01
• First posted: 2015-11-10
• Last updated: 2023-11-22

Locations

10 sites across 1 country: Canada