Ann Langius?Eklöf|Marie-Therése Crafoord|Mats Christiansen|Maria Fjell|Kay Sundberg
Effects of an interactive mHealth innovation for early detection of patient-reported symptom distress with focus on participatory care: protocol for a study based on prospective, randomised, controlled trials in patients with prostate and breast cancer
Karolinska Institutet|Karolinska Institutet|Karolinska Institutet|Karolinska Institutet|Karolinska Institutet
cancer patients predominantly treated outpatients often experience difficult symptoms side effects important facilitate improve patientclinician communication support symptom management selfcare although number projects within supportive cancer care evaluating mobile health increasing evidencebased interventions described literature thus need good quality clinical studies randomised design sufficient power guide future implementations interactive information communications technology platform including smartphonecomputer tablet app reporting symptoms cancer treatment created collaboration company specialising health care management aim paper evaluate effects using platform patients breast cancer neo adjuvant chemotherapy treatment patients locally advanced prostate cancer curative radiotherapy treatment main hypothesis use platform improve clinical management reduce costs promote safe participatory carethe study prospective randomised controlled trial patient group based repeated measurements patients consecutively included randomised intervention groups report symptoms via app daily treatment three weeks end treatment complement standard care patients control groups receive standard care alone outcomes targeted symptom burden quality life health literacy capacity understand communicate health needs promote healthy behaviours disease progress health care costs data collected treatment questionnaires registers medical records biomarkers lastly participants interviewed participatory meaningful careresults generate knowledge enhance understanding develop personcentred care using mobile technology supporting patients involvement care identify problems early promotes timely initiation necessary treatment benefit patients treated outside hospital setting regard maintaining safetyjune 12 2015 nct02477137 prostate cancer june 12 2015 nct02479607 breast cancer