Survey on chronic pain of longtime cancer survivors
Organizational Data
- DRKS-ID:
- DRKS00025282
- Recruitment Status:
- Recruiting complete, study complete
- Date of registration in DRKS:
- 2021-05-27
- Last update in DRKS:
- 2023-01-06
- Registration type:
- Retrospective
Acronym/abbreviation of the study
No Entry
URL of the study
https://www.uniklinik-freiburg.de/schmerzzentrum/forschung-und-kooperationen.html
Brief summary in lay language
More and more people are surviving cancer in the long term. Chronic pain in long-term survivors after cancer or oncologic therapies, however, is a problem that has been often neglected up to now. In order to provide more clarity about the content and procedures in the treatment of chronic cancer pain, the aim of this study is to investigate which pain treatment programs can be used by long-term survivors in the case of persistent cancer-related pain. In order to be able to develop appropriate programs, more information is needed from those people who suffer from such chronic pain. For this reason, a survey on demographics and tumor diseases, on the pain and on previous and desired treatments is carried out using an internet-based, anonymized questionnaire.
Brief summary in scientific language
The prevalence of chronic pain in Germany ranges around appr. 28%. Chronic pain can have non-tumor-related as well as tumor-related causes and, depending on the degree of chronification, can be viewed as an independent pain disorder with bio-psycho-social causes. In addition to individual physical and psychological impairments, they lead to a health economical burden with high care costs. A significant increase in chronic pain disorders is forecast for the next few decades. Comprehensive and sustainable treatment of patients with chronic pain is therefore urgently required. The interdisciplinary multimodal pain therapy represents an effective team-based treatment of chronic pain syndromes. The aim is to treat the various causes of chronic pain in all dimensions and to improve both disease understanding and functionality. At least 30% of tumor patients report severe pain in connection with their disease. Now >50% of cancer patients have a survival time of 10 years ore more. In these long-term surviving tumor patients, there is a prevalence of 20-40% for chronic pain. The chronification factors in chronic tumor pain include tumor- and therapy-related causes, hypersensitization mechanisms and psychosocial risk factors, analogous to patients with non-tumor-related pain. The increasing number of patients with chronic cancer pain indicates that this group of patients is inadequately supported in terms of pain therapy. Tumor-specific, multimodal pain-specific diagnostics and therapy could, as in the area of non-tumor-related pain therapy, lead to improvements in the care of long-term surviving cancer patients with chronic pain. In the first step, long-term cancer patients suffering from chronic pain should be asked about their pain disorder. For a more precise needs analysis, information on demographics and tumor disease, pain and previous and desired treatments should be collected. For this purpose, an anonymized survey is carried out, which is posted on the websites of tumor self-help groups or the websites for long-term surviving tumor patients.
Health condition or problem studied
- ICD10:
- F45.41
- ICD10:
- R52.2 - Other chronic pain
- Healthy volunteers:
- No
Interventions, Observational Groups
- Arm 1:
- Internet-based, anonymized patient survey over three months (June - Aug 2021) on the websites of tumor self-help groups or the websites for long-term surviving tumor patients. Long-term surviving cancer patients will be asked about their chronic pain disorder. For a more precise needs analysis, information on demographics and tumor disease, pain and previous and desired treatments should be collected.
Endpoints
- Primary outcome:
- Severity of pain and satisfaction with previous treatment. Objective: Need for treatment for chronic pain as a result of / after tumor diseases. Exploratorative, purely descriptive analysis to describe the sample. Calculation of the mean values / variance of the individual measurement parameters with, if necessary, subgroup analyzes.
- Secondary outcome:
- Satisfaction with previous treatment, pain intensity, duration of pain, pain localization
Study Design
- Purpose:
- Supportive care
- Retrospective/prospective:
- Prospective
- Study type:
- Non-interventional
- Longitudinal/cross-sectional:
- Cross-sectional study
- Study type non-interventional:
- No Entry
Recruitment
- Recruitment Status:
- Recruiting complete, study complete
- Reason if recruiting stopped or withdrawn:
- No Entry
Recruitment Locations
- Recruitment countries:
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- Germany
- Number of study centers:
- Monocenter study
- Recruitment location(s):
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- University medical center Interdisziplinäres Schmerzzentrum des UKF Freiburg im Breisgau
Recruitment period and number of participants
- Planned study start date:
- No Entry
- Actual study start date:
- 2021-04-21
- Planned study completion date:
- No Entry
- Actual Study Completion Date:
- 2021-07-25
- Target Sample Size:
- 250
- Final Sample Size:
- 33
Inclusion Criteria
- Sex:
- All
- Minimum Age:
- 18 Years
- Maximum Age:
- no maximum age
- Additional Inclusion Criteria:
- History of tumor disease
Exclusion Criteria
Lack of language skills
Addresses
Primary Sponsor
- Address:
- Interdisziplinäres SchmerzzentrumDr. med. Kristin KieselbachBreisacher Str. 11779106 FreiburgGermany
- Telephone:
- +49-761-270-93490
- Fax:
- +49-761-270-54840
- Contact per E-Mail:
- Contact per E-Mail
- URL:
- https://www.uniklinik-freiburg.de/schmerzzentrum.html
- Investigator Sponsored/Initiated Trial (IST/IIT):
- Yes
Contact for Scientific Queries
- Address:
- Interdisziplinäres SchmerzzentrumDr. med. Kristin KieselbachBreisacher Str. 11779106 FreiburgGermany
- Telephone:
- +49-761-270-93490
- Fax:
- +49-761-270-54840
- Contact per E-Mail:
- Contact per E-Mail
- URL:
- https://www.uniklinik-freiburg.de/schmerzzentrum.html
Contact for Public Queries
- Address:
- Interdisziplinäres SchmerzzentrumDr. med. Kristin KieselbachBreisacher Str. 11779106 FreiburgGermany
- Telephone:
- +49-761-270-93490
- Fax:
- +49-761-270-54840
- Contact per E-Mail:
- Contact per E-Mail
- URL:
- https://www.uniklinik-freiburg.de/schmerzzentrum.html
Principal Investigator
- Address:
- Interdisziplinäres SchmerzzentrumDr. med. Kristin KieselbachBreisacher Str. 11779106 FreiburgGermany
- Telephone:
- +49-761-270-93490
- Fax:
- +49-761-270-54840
- Contact per E-Mail:
- Contact per E-Mail
- URL:
- https://www.uniklinik-freiburg.de/schmerzzentrum.html
Sources of Monetary or Material Support
Private sponsorship (foundations, study societies, etc.)
- Address:
- Kirstins Weg · Verein zur Förderungder Krebsmedizin e. V., Kirstin Diehl-StiftungTheodor-Heuss-Straße 9056564 NeuwiedGermany
- Telephone:
- +49-2631-53499
- Fax:
- +49-2631-958692
- Contact per E-Mail:
- Contact per E-Mail
- URL:
- https://www.kirstins-weg.de/
Ethics Committee
Address Ethics Committee
- Address:
- Ethik-Kommission der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität FreiburgEngelberger Str. 2179106 FreiburgGermany
- Telephone:
- +49-761-27072600
- Fax:
- +49-761-27072630
- Contact per E-Mail:
- Contact per E-Mail
- URL:
- No Entry
Vote of leading Ethics Committee
- Vote of leading Ethics Committee
- Date of ethics committee application:
- 2021-02-08
- Ethics committee number:
- 21-1098
- Vote of the Ethics Committee:
- Approved
- Date of the vote:
- 2021-03-16
Further identification numbers
- Other primary registry ID:
- No Entry
- EudraCT Number:
- No Entry
IPD - Individual Participant Data
- Do you plan to make participant-related data (IPD) available to other researchers in an anonymized form?:
- Yes
- IPD Sharing Plan:
- Basically, the anonymized data from the survey are available to other Researchers on request.
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:
- No Entry
Publication of study results
- Planned publication:
- No Entry
- Publikationen/Studienergebnisse:
- No Entry
- Date of first publication of study results:
- No Entry
- DRKS entry published for the first time with results:
- No Entry
Basic reporting
- Basic Reporting / Results tables:
- No Entry
- Brief summary of results:
- No Entry