Evaluation of medical benefits and positive effects of the certified medical product PINK! Coach in a multi-centre, randomized controlled clinical study with breast cancer patients

Organizational Data

DRKS-ID:
DRKS00028699
Recruitment Status:
Recruiting complete, study continuing
Date of registration in DRKS:
2022-08-29
Last update in DRKS:
2024-01-26
Registration type:
Prospective

Acronym/abbreviation of the study

PINK! Coach

URL of the study

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Brief summary in lay language

A multi-centre RCT to investigate the medical and economic benefits of the digital health application PINK! Coach. It is assumed that the use of the PINK! Coach for therapy and aftercare support for patients with breast cancer (EBC and MBC) leads to a significant reduction in psychological stress and other secondary endpoints.

Brief summary in scientific language

Multicentric, prospective RCT to investigate the medical benefits and economic endpoints to evaluate the digital health application PINK! Coach for patients with early and advanced breast cancer during initial therapy and aftercare.

Health condition or problem studied

Free text:
mamma carcinoma
ICD10:
C50 - Malignant neoplasm of breast
Healthy volunteers:
No

Interventions, Observational Groups

Arm 1:
using PINK! Coach: Intervention group receives the App for 12 months. After reaching the primary outcome after 3 months, the control group receives the App, which means 9 months of usage. Both is meant to be until the end of this study.
Arm 2:
standard of care

Endpoints

Primary outcome:
PHQ-9 sum score to the following points of time: - Baseline (zum Rekrutierungszeitpunkt) - T1 (after 4 weeks) - T2 (after 8 weeks) - T3 (after 12 weeks) - T4 (longtime followup after 6 months) - T5 (longtime followup after12 months)
Secondary outcome:
health-related quality of life, physical activity, resilience, fatigue: - Baseline (at the time of recruitment) - T1 (after 4 weeks) - T2 (after 8 weeks) - T3 (after 12 weeks) - T4 (longtime followup after 6 months) - T5 (longtime followup after 12 months) health literacy: - Baseline (at the time of recruitment) - T3 (after 12 weeks) BMI: - Baseline (at the time of recruitment) - T2 (after 8 weeks) - T3 (after 12 weeks) - T4 (longtime followup after 6 months) - T5 (longtime followup after 12 months) economic endpoints - Baseline (at the time of recruitment) - T3 (after 12 weeks) - T5 (longtime followup after 12 months)

Study Design

Purpose:
Supportive care
Allocation:
Randomized controlled study
Control:
  • Control group receives no treatment
Phase:
IV
Study type:
Interventional
Mechanism of allocation concealment:
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Blinding:
No
Assignment:
Parallel
Sequence generation:
No Entry
Who is blinded:
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Recruitment

Recruitment Status:
Recruiting complete, study continuing
Reason if recruiting stopped or withdrawn:
No Entry

Recruitment Locations

Recruitment countries:
  • Germany
Number of study centers:
Multicenter study
Recruitment location(s):
  • University medical center LMU Brustzentrum München München
  • Medical center KEM Kliniken Senologie Essen Essen
  • University medical center Brustzentrum UKM Münster Münster
  • Medical center Agaplesion Markus Krankenhaus Klinik für Gynäkologie und Gynäkologische Onkologie Frankfurt Frankfurt am Main
  • Medical center Kooperatives Brustzentrum Paderborn -Gynäkologisches Krebszentrum am St. Vincenz Paderborn
  • Medical center St. Elisabeth-Krankenhaus Köln-Hohenlind Köln
  • University medical center Universitätsfrauenklinik am Caritas-Krankenhaus St. Josef Regensburg

Recruitment period and number of participants

Planned study start date:
2022-09-15
Actual study start date:
2022-09-23
Planned study completion date:
2024-02-26
Actual Study Completion Date:
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Target Sample Size:
422
Final Sample Size:
434

Inclusion Criteria

Sex:
All
Minimum Age:
18 Years
Maximum Age:
no maximum age
Additional Inclusion Criteria:
age > 18 years German speaking Histologically proven breast cancer (all stages, TNM classifications, therapies) Diagnosis of the initial disease, recurrence, metastasis within the last 6 months In initial therapy (at least 6 weeks left at the time of recruitment) or discharge for aftercare at the time of recruitment owning a smartphone willingness to use PINK! Coach regularly existence of an e-mail address

Exclusion Criteria

Estimated survival < 3 months Use of another app to accompany cancer therapy or aftercare

Addresses

Primary Sponsor

Address:
PINK gegen Brustkrebs GmbH
Prof. Dr. Pia Wülfing
Curschmannstr. 35
20251 Hamburg
Germany
Telephone:
+49 40 468 9808 63
Fax:
No Entry
Contact per E-Mail:
Contact per E-Mail
URL:
https://www.pink-brustkrebs.de/
Investigator Sponsored/Initiated Trial (IST/IIT):
No

Contact for Scientific Queries

Address:
Brustzentrum LMU München Leitung Brustzentrum LMU München Klinik und Poliklinik für Frauenheilkunde und Geburtshilfe
PD Dr. med. Rachel Würstlein
Ziemssenstr. 1
80336 München
Germany
Telephone:
+49 089 4400 54110
Fax:
No Entry
Contact per E-Mail:
Contact per E-Mail
URL:
https://www.lmu-klinikum.de/brustzentrum

Contact for Public Queries

Address:
Frauenklinik Brustzentrum LMU München
Svenja Seidel
Marchioninistraße 15
81377 München
Germany
Telephone:
+49 089/4400-77994
Fax:
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Contact per E-Mail:
Contact per E-Mail
URL:
http://klinikum.uni-muenchen.de

Principal Investigator

Address:
Brustzentrum LMU München Leitung Brustzentrum LMU München Klinik und Poliklinik für Frauenheilkunde und Geburtshilfe
PD Dr. med. Rachel Würstlein
Ziemssenstr. 1
80336 München
Germany
Telephone:
+49 089 4400 54110
Fax:
No Entry
Contact per E-Mail:
Contact per E-Mail
URL:
https://www.lmu-klinikum.de/brustzentrum

Sources of Monetary or Material Support

Commercial (pharmaceutical industry, medical engineering industry, etc.)

Address:
PINK gegen Brustkrebs GmbH
Curschmannstr. 35
20251 Hamburg
Germany
Telephone:
+49 40 468 9808 63
Fax:
No Entry
Contact per E-Mail:
Contact per E-Mail
URL:
http://www.pink-brustkrebs.de

Ethics Committee

Address Ethics Committee

Address:
Ethikkommission der Med. Fakultät der LMU
Pettenkoferstraße 8
80336 München
Germany
Telephone:
+49-89-440055191
Fax:
+49-89-440055192
Contact per E-Mail:
Contact per E-Mail
URL:
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Vote of leading Ethics Committee

Vote of leading Ethics Committee
Date of ethics committee application:
2022-05-10
Ethics committee number:
22-0498
Vote of the Ethics Committee:
Approved
Date of the vote:
2022-07-21

Further identification numbers

Other primary registry ID:
No Entry
EudraCT Number:
No Entry
UTN (Universal Trial Number):
No Entry
EUDAMED Number:
No Entry

IPD - Individual Participant Data

Do you plan to make participant-related data (IPD) available to other researchers in an anonymized form?:
No
IPD Sharing Plan:
No Entry

Study protocol and other study documents

Study protocols:
No Entry
Study abstract:
No Entry
Other study documents:
No Entry
Background literature:
No Entry
Related DRKS studies:
DRKS00025811 - Pilotstudie

Publication of study results

Planned publication:
2023
Publikationen/Studienergebnisse:
No Entry
Date of first publication of study results:
No Entry
DRKS entry published for the first time with results:
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Basic reporting

Basic Reporting / Results tables:
No Entry
Brief summary of results:
No Entry