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UnknownNCT03087422
Text Message (SMS) to Help Cancer Patients in Chemotherapy Treatment
An Intervention Based on Text Message (SMS) to Help Cancer Patients in Chemotherapy Treatment
- Status
- Unknown
- Phase
- N/A
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 80 (estimated)
- Sponsor
- Samanta Winck Madruga · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 18 Years – 70 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
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.
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| BEHAVIORAL | Text message intervention | The intervention consists in sending text messages with orientation that helps in homecare, specifically attempting to minimize chemotherapy side effects. |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2016-08-01
- Primary completion
- 2017-09-01
- Completion
- 2017-12-15
- First posted
- 2017-03-22
- Last updated
- 2017-03-22
Locations
1 site across 1 country: Brazil
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT03087422. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.