A Collaborative Intervention for Improving Cancer Pain Management in Cancer Survivors (ASCENT)

Study Summary

This clinical trial tests a collaborative pain management intervention (ASCENT) for improving cancer pain in cancer survivors. Cancer pain is prevalent, under-treated, and remains a major cause of suffering, impairment, and disability for millions of Americans. Individual pain interventions and care models show promise for cancer pain in controlled settings. All cancer survivors stand to benefit from electronic health record innovations, as they can experience profound pain outcomes, including marked under- and over-prescribing of opioids. Digitally facilitated solutions are especially helpful and can be customized to address patient needs. The ASCENT intervention provides patients with an educational guide that describes techniques for addressing cancer pain, and uses community health workers and pain care managers to coach patients through a personalized pain management plan. This study may help researchers learn how pain management strategies can improve cancer pain and lower risk of opioid exposure and dependency in cancer survivors.

Primary Outcome

Will be measured using the Brief Pain Inventory Short Form (BPI SF), a 4-item questionnaire answered on a scale from 0 (no pain) to 10 (pain as bad as you can imagine). A higher score indicates worse pain.

Conditions Studied

Interventions

• OTHER Questionnaire Administration
• OTHER Best Practice
• OTHER Educational Intervention
• OTHER Electronic Health Record Review
• PROCEDURE Health Telemonitoring

Study Locations (3)