CancerNCT02921724
Participatory Research for Fine-tuning of a 2.0 System to Optimise Home Management of Oral Cancer Therapies.
A study testing TreC-Onco in people with Cancer and Oral Drug Administration, run by Istituto Romagnolo per lo Studio dei Tumori Dino Amadori IRST S.r.l. IRCCS at 3 sites in Italy.
Trial summary
This is a prospective testing-validation, interventional, non-pharmacological study on a new app for oral anticancer therapy management. A total of 80 patients will be considered: 20 evaluable patients in the training step; 60 patients in the validation step. Read more about this study
- Who is it for?
- Ages 18 to 75 years
- Conditions the study is for
- Cancer, Oral Drug Administration
- What is being tested?
- TreC-Onco
- Type of treatment
- Pill or oral medicine, Medical device
- Could I receive a placebo?
- No, everyone receives an active treatment
- How many people
- 40 participants
- Where
- 3 sitesItaly
- Study dates
- 27 Jan 2016to May 2021
- Phase
- Interventional
- Are there results?
- None posted in the registry
Key requirements
Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.
- Ages 18 to 75 years
- All sexes
- No healthy volunteers
- Adult, Older adult
Who may be able to join
- ECOG-Performance Status (PS) less or equal to 1;
- life expectancy > 12 weeks;
- candidate for treatment with capecitabine or sunitinib as monotherapy (adjuvant and advanced settings allowed);
- clear understanding of the Italian language;
- subjects who are, in the opinion of the Investigator, able to understand this study, to cooperate with the study procedures and able to manage mobile devices after basic training course held at baseline;
- written informed consent
Who cannot join
- Patients receiving also intravenous anticancer treatment
Trial locations and contacts
3 sites in 1 country.
Italy3 sites
Azienda Ospedaliera Papa Giovanni XXIII, Bergamo
Bergamo, 24127
Irst-Irccs
Meldola (FC), 47014
Azienda Provinciale per i Servizi Sanitari della Provincia Autonoma di Trento
Trento, 38123
About this study
This is a prospective testing-validation, interventional, non-pharmacological study on a new app for oral anticancer therapy management.
A total of 80 patients will be considered: 20 evaluable patients in the training step; 60 patients in the validation step. In the training step will be considered evaluable the patients with: at least 6 weeks of treatment; visit at 6 weeks after the start of treatment performed and questionnaires self-administered.
Read more
Patients will be visited every 6 weeks. In the training step, patients will remain under observation for a minimum of 6 weeks, until change of therapy (due to progression of disease, unacceptable toxicity, death, discontinuation) or for a maximum of 12 weeks. Patients enrolled in the validation step will remain under observation until change of therapy (due to progression of disease, unacceptable toxicity, death, discontinuation) or for a maximum of 24 weeks.
The objective of this study is to assess the capability of a newly developed interactive health care application to support patients and health professionals in the shared management of oral anticancer therapies, improving adherence, preventing complications at home, toxicities, improper treatment reductions or interruptions, emergency accesses and to assess the system usability and acceptability by patients and health professionals, integration in the hospital workflow, monitoring over time patient perceived levels of quality of care, quality of life, social support, anxiety, and self-care capability.
Read the detailed description
This is a prospective, interventional, non pharmacological study for testing-validation of a new app for optimising home management of oral therapies for cancer treatment.
All patients will be treated according to the local clinical practice. Enrolment period: 8 (training step) + 12 (validation step) months. Total duration of the study: 36 months. This is a multicenter study. Objective of the study is to assess the capability of a newly developed interactive health care application to support patients and health professionals in the shared management of oral anticancer therapies, and to assess the system usability and acceptability by patients and health professionals.
Eligible patients must meet the following criteria:
- adult 18-75 years old;
- Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status ≤ 1;
- candidate for treatment with capecitabine or sunitinib as monotherapy (adjuvant and advanced settings allowed);
- sufficient ability to manage mobile devices after basic training course held at baseline;
- clear understanding of the Italian language;
- written informed consent.
Health professionals and patients define the items of the system through participatory design techniques (e.g. focus group sessions, joint review).
To define whether the system is capable of monitoring patient adherence, the number of pills counted by the system (self-reported by the patient at home) will be compared with that counted by the physician as residual pills returned by the patient at the hospital visit. A difference in the number of pills within +/- 10% will be considered acceptable. A comparison of type and grade of toxicity will be made between the adverse events indicated by the system and those reported by the patient at the clinical visit. The quality of the system will be considered adequate if all the grade 3 and at least 80% of the grade 2 or more toxicity data reported by the patient at the time of the visit is recorded in the app.
To investigate system usability and acceptability, Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-General (FACT-G) and Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) questionnaires will be used. Scores will be subdivided into different subscales and analyzed using the Wilcoxon rank-sum test. Two new questionnaires have been developed and will be used to evaluate patient expectations of the system, and system acceptability + patient-doctor communication. An internationally validated questionnaire translated into Italian on system usability (SUS) will be also administered at the end of observation. Conversational interviews will be audio-recorded, transcribed and analyzed.
- Conditions
- Cancer, Oral Drug Administration
- Being tested
- TreC-Onco
- Keywords
- cancer, oral drug, sunitinib, capecitabine, mobile app
- Medical subject headings
- Neoplasms
What participants receive
What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.
TreC-OncoDevice
TreC-Onco is composed of two tools aimed at supporting patient self-care and health professional monitoring and intervention:
- Mobile diary app. This is an Android app (for Android version 2.2 and higher) that allows patients to record parameters related to their health state (e.g. medications; blood pressure, weight, fever; side-effects or other symptoms) through a mobile device. Data are stored in a central database and are made available in real time to health professionals through a web dashboard on the TreC server or through a tablet app.
- Web dashboard. Through this, oncologists can check patient data, monitoring their side-effects and adherence to prescriptions. The Dashboard is optimized for the Firefox browser in version 7 or higher.
| Study group | Role | What they receive |
|---|---|---|
| Cancer patients undergoing oral therapy | Experimental | At the time of therapy prescription, patients candidate for oral therapy with capecitabine or sunitinib will be provided with informations on the side-effects of therapy and on the use and functions of the mobile diary app TreC-Onco. Patients are required to manually insert data into the mobile diary app at least once a day. Patients will be visited every 6 weeks. During the visit, the clinician will compare adherence and toxicity data entered into the mobile diary app with those directly reported by the patient and by drug accountability. Receives: Device: TreC-Onco |
What is being measured
The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.
Drug accountability comparison
the number of pills counted by the system (self-reported by the patient at home) will be compared with that counted by the physician as residual pills returned by the patient at the hospital visit. A difference in the number of pills within +/- 10% will be considered acceptable.
Measured: 3 years
Toxicity reporting comparison
A comparison of type and grade of toxicity will be made between the adverse events indicated by the system and those reported by the patient/detected by the doctor at the clinical visit. The quality of the system will be considered adequate if all the grade 3 and at least 80% of the grade 2 toxicity data reported by the patient at the time of the visit is recorded in the app. A comparison will be made between the adverse event start time reported by the system and the time of data-entry by the patient into the system.
Measured: 3 years
Secondary outcomes (6)
System acceptability: HADS questionaire
HADS questionaire will be analyzed using the Wilcoxon rank-sum test
Measured: 3 years
System acceptability: FACT-B questionaire
FACT-B questionaire will be analyzed using the Wilcoxon rank-sum test
Measured: 3 years
System usability: system usability scale (SUS) questionaire
system usability scale (SUS) will be analyzed using the Wilcoxon rank-sum test
Measured: 3 years
System acceptability by the Q-pre questionaire
System acceptability by the Q-pre questionaire using content and template qualitative sociological analysis
Measured: 3 years
System acceptability by the Q-post questionaire
System acceptability by the Q-post questionaire using content and template qualitative sociological analysis
Measured: 3 years
System acceptability by semi-structured interviews
System acceptability by semi-structured interviews using content and template qualitative sociological analysis
Measured: 3 years
Timeline
From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.
- First posted3 Oct 2016 (estimated)
- Study start27 Jan 2016
- Primary completionMay 2021 (estimated)
- Study completionMay 2021 (estimated)
Resources
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govThe registry entry this page is built from, with its full change history.
- Publications (2)Papers the sponsor has linked to this study.
- Other trials for CancerStudies of the same condition, open and under way.
- What the trial phases meanHow a treatment moves from first tests in people to approval.
More details
For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.
Study design
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Phase N/A
- Primary purpose
- Health services research
- Allocation
- Not applicable
- Intervention model
- Single group
- Masking
- None (open label)
- Enrolment
- 40 participants (actual)
Sponsor and investigators
- Lead sponsor
- Istituto Romagnolo per lo Studio dei Tumori Dino Amadori IRST S.r.l. IRCCS
- Sponsor type
- University, hospital or other
- Collaborators
- Kessler Foundation
- Responsible party
- Sponsor
- Investigators
- Alessandro Passardi, MD, Study chair, IRST IRCCS, Meldola (FC)
IDs, dates and publications
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT02921724
- Sponsor's protocol ID
- IRST100.18
- Status last verified
- Feb 2021
- First submitted
- 26 Sep 2016
- Last updated
- 26 Feb 2021
- Results posted
- No
- Data monitoring committee
- No
- Individual data sharing
- Undecided
Publications
Passardi A, Foca F, Caffo O, Tondini CA, Zambelli A, Vespignani R, Bartolini G, Sullo FG, Andreis D, Dianti M, Eccher C, Piras EM, Forti S. A Remote Monitoring System to Optimize the Home Management of Oral Anticancer Therapies (ONCO-TreC): Prospective Training-Validation Trial. J Med Internet Res. 2022 Jan 26;24(1):e27349. doi: 10.2196/27349.
PubMed 35080505Passardi A, Rizzo M, Maines F, Tondini C, Zambelli A, Vespignani R, Andreis D, Massa I, Dianti M, Forti S, Piras EM, Eccher C. Optimisation and validation of a remote monitoring system (Onco-TreC) for home-based management of oral anticancer therapies: an Italian multicentre feasibility study. BMJ Open. 2017 May 29;7(5):e014617. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2016-014617.
PubMed 28554917
Study at a glance
From the registry record, last updated by the sponsor on 26 Feb 2021. Recruitment status is as the sponsor reported it: confirm with the study team.
- Official title
- Participatory Research for Fine-tuning of a 2.0 System to Optimise Home Management of Oral Cancer Therapies.
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT02921724
- Acronym / sponsor ID
- IRST100.18
- Conditions
- Cancer, Oral Drug Administration
- Keywords
- cancer, oral drug, sunitinib, capecitabine, mobile app
- Study type
- Interventional
- Recruitment status
- Unknown status
- Enrolment
- 40 participants (actual)
- Lead sponsor
- Istituto Romagnolo per lo Studio dei Tumori Dino Amadori IRST S.r.l. IRCCSUniversity, hospital or other
- Collaborators
- Kessler Foundation
- Study start
- 27 Jan 2016 (actual)
- Primary completion
- May 2021 (estimated)
- Study completion
- May 2021 (estimated)
- First posted
- 3 Oct 2016 (estimated)
- Results
- Not posted in the source record
Clinical summary
The research question as the sponsor registered it. This describes what the study plans to test, not what it found.
This is a prospective testing-validation, interventional, non-pharmacological study on a new app for oral anticancer therapy management.
A total of 80 patients will be considered: 20 evaluable patients in the training step; 60 patients in the validation step. In the training step will be considered evaluable the patients with: at least 6 weeks of treatment; visit at 6 weeks after the start of treatment performed and questionnaires self-administered.
Patients will be visited every 6 weeks. In the training step, patients will remain under observation for a minimum of 6 weeks, until change of therapy (due to progression of disease, unacceptable toxicity, death, discontinuation) or for a maximum of 12 weeks. Patients enrolled in the validation step will remain under observation until change of therapy (due to progression of disease, unacceptable toxicity, death, discontinuation) or for a maximum of 24 weeks.
The objective of this study is to assess the capability of a newly developed interactive health care application to support patients and health professionals in the shared management of oral anticancer therapies, improving adherence, preventing complications at home, toxicities, improper treatment reductions or interruptions, emergency accesses and to assess the system usability and acceptability by patients and health professionals, integration in the hospital workflow, monitoring over time patient perceived levels of quality of care, quality of life, social support, anxiety, and self-care capability.
Detailed description
This is a prospective, interventional, non pharmacological study for testing-validation of a new app for optimising home management of oral therapies for cancer treatment.
All patients will be treated according to the local clinical practice. Enrolment period: 8 (training step) + 12 (validation step) months. Total duration of the study: 36 months. This is a multicenter study. Objective of the study is to assess the capability of a newly developed interactive health care application to support patients and health professionals in the shared management of oral anticancer therapies, and to assess the system usability and acceptability by patients and health professionals.
Eligible patients must meet the following criteria:
- adult 18-75 years old;
- Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status ≤ 1;
- candidate for treatment with capecitabine or sunitinib as monotherapy (adjuvant and advanced settings allowed);
- sufficient ability to manage mobile devices after basic training course held at baseline;
- clear understanding of the Italian language;
- written informed consent.
Health professionals and patients define the items of the system through participatory design techniques (e.g. focus group sessions, joint review).
To define whether the system is capable of monitoring patient adherence, the number of pills counted by the system (self-reported by the patient at home) will be compared with that counted by the physician as residual pills returned by the patient at the hospital visit. A difference in the number of pills within +/- 10% will be considered acceptable. A comparison of type and grade of toxicity will be made between the adverse events indicated by the system and those reported by the patient at the clinical visit. The quality of the system will be considered adequate if all the grade 3 and at least 80% of the grade 2 or more toxicity data reported by the patient at the time of the visit is recorded in the app.
To investigate system usability and acceptability, Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-General (FACT-G) and Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) questionnaires will be used. Scores will be subdivided into different subscales and analyzed using the Wilcoxon rank-sum test. Two new questionnaires have been developed and will be used to evaluate patient expectations of the system, and system acceptability + patient-doctor communication. An internationally validated questionnaire translated into Italian on system usability (SUS) will be also administered at the end of observation. Conversational interviews will be audio-recorded, transcribed and analyzed.
Study design
- Primary purpose
- Health services research
- Allocation
- Not applicable
- Intervention model
- Single group
- Masking
- None (open label)
- Number of arms
- 1
| Arm | Type | Receives |
|---|---|---|
| Cancer patients undergoing oral therapy | Experimental | Device: TreC-OncoAt the time of therapy prescription, patients candidate for oral therapy with capecitabine or sunitinib will be provided with informations on the side-effects of therapy and on the use and functions of the mobile diary app TreC-Onco. Patients are required to manually insert data into the mobile diary app at least once a day. Patients will be visited every 6 weeks. During the visit, the clinician will compare adherence and toxicity data entered into the mobile diary app with those directly reported by the patient and by drug accountability. |
Who may qualify
- Ages
- 18 to 75 years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
- Age groups
- Adult, Older adult
Key inclusion criteria (6 listed)
- ECOG-Performance Status (PS) less or equal to 1;
- life expectancy > 12 weeks;
- candidate for treatment with capecitabine or sunitinib as monotherapy (adjuvant and advanced settings allowed);
- clear understanding of the Italian language;
- subjects who are, in the opinion of the Investigator, able to understand this study, to cooperate with the study procedures and able to manage mobile devices after basic training course held at baseline;
Key exclusion criteria (1 listed)
- Patients receiving also intravenous anticancer treatment
Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening; this overview does not establish that a patient qualifies. Full inclusion and exclusion criteria.
Interventions
| Intervention | Type | Arms |
|---|---|---|
| TreC-OncoTreC-Onco is composed of two tools aimed at supporting patient self-care and health professional monitoring and intervention: 1. Mobile diary app. This is an Android app (for Android version 2.2 and higher) that allows patients to record parameters related to their health state (e.g. medications; blood pressure, weight, fever; side-effects or other symptoms) through a mobile device. Data are stored in a central database and are made available in real time to health professionals through a web dashboard on the TreC server or through a tablet app. 2. Web dashboard. Through this, oncologists can check patient data, monitoring their side-effects and adherence to prescriptions. The Dashboard is optimized for the Firefox browser in version 7 or higher. | Device | Cancer patients undergoing oral therapy |
Primary outcome
Drug accountability comparison
Time frame: 3 years
the number of pills counted by the system (self-reported by the patient at home) will be compared with that counted by the physician as residual pills returned by the patient at the hospital visit. A difference in the number of pills within +/- 10% will be considered acceptable.
Toxicity reporting comparison
Time frame: 3 years
A comparison of type and grade of toxicity will be made between the adverse events indicated by the system and those reported by the patient/detected by the doctor at the clinical visit. The quality of the system will be considered adequate if all the grade 3 and at least 80% of the grade 2 toxicity data reported by the patient at the time of the visit is recorded in the app. A comparison will be made between the adverse event start time reported by the system and the time of data-entry by the patient into the system.
6 secondary outcomes
System acceptability: HADS questionaire
Time frame: 3 years
System acceptability: FACT-B questionaire
Time frame: 3 years
System usability: system usability scale (SUS) questionaire
Time frame: 3 years
System acceptability by the Q-pre questionaire
Time frame: 3 years
System acceptability by the Q-post questionaire
Time frame: 3 years
System acceptability by semi-structured interviews
Time frame: 3 years
Results and safety
Results are not available in the source record.
Research links
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govLast updated by the sponsor 26 Feb 2021.
- Derived from this study: PubMed 35080505Passardi A, Foca F, Caffo O, Tondini CA, Zambelli A, Vespignani R, Bartolini G, Sullo FG, Andreis D, Dianti M, Eccher C, Piras EM, Forti S. A Remote Monitoring System to Optimize the Home Management of Oral Anticancer Therapies (ONCO-TreC): Prospective Training-Validation Trial. J Med Internet Res. 2022 Jan 26;24(1):e27349. doi: 10.2196/27349.
- Derived from this study: PubMed 28554917Passardi A, Rizzo M, Maines F, Tondini C, Zambelli A, Vespignani R, Andreis D, Massa I, Dianti M, Forti S, Piras EM, Eccher C. Optimisation and validation of a remote monitoring system (Onco-TreC) for home-based management of oral anticancer therapies: an Italian multicentre feasibility study. BMJ Open. 2017 May 29;7(5):e014617. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2016-014617.
- Individual participant dataSharing planned: Undecided
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Referral and contact
AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals. Contact the study team or a site listed below; they decide who can take part. This study is not recruiting at the moment.
Alessandro Passardi, MD study chair
IRST IRCCS, Meldola (FC)
3 sites in 1 country: see every site and its status.
Questions about this trial
What is this clinical trial studying?
A study testing TreC-Onco in people with Cancer and Oral Drug Administration, run by Istituto Romagnolo per lo Studio dei Tumori Dino Amadori IRST S.r.l. IRCCS at 3 sites in Italy.
The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.
Who may be eligible to take part?
The sponsor lists 6 inclusion and 1 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.
Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?
The record says: status not confirmed, as of the sponsor's last update on 26 Feb 2021. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.
Where is the study taking place?
The record lists 3 sites in Italy. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.
What are the possible benefits and risks?
They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.
Are results available for this study?
Results are not available in the source record.
How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?
The record lists no contact. The official record names the sponsor, who can be asked directly. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.
What does the primary outcome measure?
Drug accountability comparison (time frame: 3 years). The study lists 2 primary outcomes in all. It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.
Where can I read the original study information?
On the ClinicalTrials.gov record for NCT02921724, which also lists 2 linked publications.
Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?
No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.
How often is this information updated?
AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 26 Feb 2021.