NCT00920504

Pilot Study to Test the Feasibility and the Efficacy of the German Language Adapted PRO-SELF© Plus Pain Control Program, an Educational Intervention Directed at Patients and Their Family Caregivers to Reduce Cancer Pain and Related Symptoms

Extracted Fields (from Registry)
Protocol IDNCT00920504
Registration Date2009-06-15
Statuscompleted
SponsorUniversity Hospital, Basel, Switzerland
CountryGermany
Industrynot industry
Blindingblinded
Center Typesingel-center RCT
Scopenational RCT
First Patient In2009-06-01
Last Patient Out2011-06-01
Publicationn
Gender %ALL
Mean Age18 Years -
LLM Classifications (Side-by-Side)
Field CLAUDE
claude-sonnet-4-20250514
Thinking: claude-opus-4-20250514
5315ms / 10258 tok
GLM
glm-5.1
6655ms / 9024 tok
OPENAI
gpt-4o
Thinking: o3
3057ms / 8871 tok
Review
rct_type parallel RCT parallel RCT parallel RCT OK
cancer_status Cancer Cancer Cancer OK
non_cancer_spec N/A N/A N/A OK
setting_patient outpatient outpatient outpatient OK
setting_place home care home care → home care
shaky reasoning
✓ Unanimous Initial: home care Requery: home care — The intervention is delivered through home visits by research nurses at weeks 1, 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10, with telephone interviews at weeks 3, 5, 7 and 9, indicating the educational program is delivered in patients' homes.
home care other
shaky reasoning
✓ Unanimous Initial: other
home care other → home care
shaky reasoning
✓ Unanimous Initial: other Requery: home care — The intervention is delivered in the patient's home as noted by the description of research nurse visits and telephone interviews conducted at the patient's home.
OK
feasibility feasibility RCT feasibility RCT feasibility RCT OK
intervention_pharmacologic no no no OK
intervention_chemo_immuno_radio no no no OK
intervention_complementary no no no OK
intervention_device no no no OK
intervention_psychological no no no OK
intervention_complex yes yes → yes
shaky reasoning
✓ Unanimous Initial: yes Requery: yes — The PRO-SELF© Plus PCP intervention explicitly combines three distinct interacting strategies: (a) information provision (educational), (b) skill building (behavioral), and (c) nurse coaching (professional support), making it a multicomponent intervention.
yes no
shaky reasoning
✓ Unanimous Initial: no
yes no → yes
shaky reasoning
✓ Unanimous Initial: no Requery: yes — The intervention combines educational components with nurse coaching and skill-building, making it a multicomponent intervention involving different types.
OK
intervention_acp no no no OK
intervention_music no no no OK
intervention_screening no no no OK
intervention_palliative no yes → no
shaky reasoning
✓ Unanimous Initial: yes Requery: no — This is an educational intervention (PRO-SELF© Plus Pain Control Program) to teach pain self-management skills to cancer patients, not a palliative care consultation or service delivery intervention.
no no → no
shaky reasoning
✓ Unanimous Initial: no Requery: no — The intervention is an educational program for pain self-management (PRO-SELF© Plus Pain Control Program), which is a behavioral/supportive therapy rather than a palliative care consultation, service delivery, or care model.
no no → no
shaky reasoning
✓ Unanimous Initial: no Requery: no — The intervention is an educational program for pain management, not a palliative care consultation or service.
OK
intervention_education yes yes yes OK
intervention_digital no no no OK
intervention_other no no no OK
outcome_symptom yes yes yes OK
outcome_qol no no no OK
outcome_dignity no no no OK
outcome_cost no no no OK
outcome_other yes yes → no → yes
shaky reasoning
✓ Unanimous Initial: yes Requery: no — All outcomes measure symptom-related aspects - average and worst pain, and patients' knowledge of cancer pain management - which fall under symptom/QoL categories. Thinking: yes — The secondary outcome measures patients' knowledge of cancer pain management, which falls under the knowledge/skills category.
yes yes → yes
shaky reasoning
✓ Unanimous Initial: yes Requery: yes — The secondary outcome measures patient knowledge of cancer pain management, which falls under the 'knowledge/skills' category not covered by symptom/QoL/dignity/cost.
yes no → yes → yes
shaky reasoning
✓ Unanimous Initial: no Requery: yes — The study includes caregiver outcomes, which are not covered by symptom/QoL/dignity/cost categories. Thinking: yes — It evaluates patients' knowledge of cancer pain management, a knowledge/skill outcome outside symptom, QoL, dignity, or cost domains.
OK
pharmacologic_sub N/A N/A N/A OK
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