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Masiero MA, Filipponi C, Pizzoli SFM, Munzone E, Guido L, Guardamagna VA, Marceglia S, Caruso A, Prandin R, Prenassi M, Manzelli V, Savino C, Conti C, Rizzi F, Casalino A, Candiani G, Memini F, Chiveri L, Vitali AL, Corbo M, Milani A, Grasso R, Traversoni S, Fragale E, Didier F, Pravettoni G
Usability Testing of a New Digital Integrated Health Ecosystem (PainRELife) for the Clinical Management of Chronic Pain in Patients With Early Breast Cancer: Protocol for a Pilot Study
“Usability testing of a new digital integrated health ecosystem PainRELife for the clinical man-agement of chronic pain in early breast cancer patients: Protocol for a Pilot Study”
Marianna Agnese Masiero;
Chiara Filipponi;
Silvia Francesca Maria Pizzoli;
Elisabetta Munzone;
Luca Guido;
Vittorio Andrea Guardamagna;
Sara Marceglia;
Annamaria Caruso;
Roberto Prandin;
Marco Prenassi;
Vania Manzelli;
Chiara Savino;
Costanza Conti;
Federica Rizzi;
Alice Casalino;
Giulia Candiani;
Francesca Memini;
Luca Chiveri;
Andrea Luigi Vitali;
Massimo Corbo;
Alessandra Milani;
Roberto Grasso;
Silvia Traversoni;
Elisa Fragale;
Florence Didier;
Gabriella Pravettoni
ABSTRACT
Background:
Recent advances in the field of information and communication technology enable the adoption of a novel and challenging approach to care management in the oncological domain by developing integrated ecosystems and health mobile applications.
Objective:
The primary endpoint of this pilot study is to evaluate patients’ usability experience at 3-months of a new digital and integrated technological ecosystem (composed of a platform in which patient health data are stored and its mobile application for care monitoring and momentary ecological assessments) for chronic pain in a sample of breast cancer patients.
Methods:
This is an observational, prospective pilot study. Twenty patients with early breast cancer and chronic pain will be enrolled. Each patient will use the PainRELife mobile application for 3 months, during which data extracted from the questionnaires will be sent to the Nu Platform that healthcare professionals will manage. This pilot study is nested in a large-scale project named “PainRELife" which aims to develop a cloud technology platform able to inter-operate with institutional systems and patients' devices to collect integrated healthcare data. The study received approval from the Ethical Committee of the European Cancer Institute in December 2021 (n. R1597/21-IEO 1701).
Results:
The study is recruiting, and data collection is expected to be completed in September 2022.
Conclusions:
The new integrated technological ecosystems might be considered an encouraging affordance to enhance a patient-centered approach to managing cancer patients. This pilot study will inform about which features the health technological ecosystems should have to be used by cancer patients to manage chronic pain.
Citation
Please cite as:
Masiero MA, Filipponi C, Pizzoli SFM, Munzone E, Guido L, Guardamagna VA, Marceglia S, Caruso A, Prandin R, Prenassi M, Manzelli V, Savino C, Conti C, Rizzi F, Casalino A, Candiani G, Memini F, Chiveri L, Vitali AL, Corbo M, Milani A, Grasso R, Traversoni S, Fragale E, Didier F, Pravettoni G
Usability Testing of a New Digital Integrated Health Ecosystem (PainRELife) for the Clinical Management of Chronic Pain in Patients With Early Breast Cancer: Protocol for a Pilot Study