Advancing Safe, Comprehensive, Digitally-Enabled Cancer Pain managemeNT (ASCENT)

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.

Description

Eligibility

Age range

18+ years

Sex

All

Healthy volunteers

No

Interventions

• Other
  Best Practice

  Receive enhanced usual care

• Other
  Educational Intervention

  Receive ASCENT guide

• Other
  Questionnaire Administration

  Ancillary studies

• Other
  Electronic Health Record Review

  Ancillary studies

• Procedure
  Health Telemonitoring

  Attend video or phone calls with a CHW and/or PCM

• Behavioral
  Cancer Pain Management

  Receive personalized pain management plan

Locations (3)