The electronic self report assessment and intervention for cancer: promoting patient verbal reporting of symptom and quality of life issues in a randomized controlled trial

BMC Cancer

Donna L Berry⁴  Fangxin Hong⁷  Barbara Halpenny⁴  Anne Partridge¹  Erica Fox⁴  Jesse R Fann⁶  Seth Wolpin³  William B Lober³  Nigel Bush²  Upendra Parvathaneni⁸  Dagmar Amtmann⁵  Rosemary Ford⁶ 

[1] Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, 450 Brookline Ave, Boston, MA 02215, USA

[2] U.S. Department of Defense, Joint Base Lewis-McChord, National Center for Telehealth and Technology, Tacoma, Washington, USA

[3] Department of Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems, University of Washington, Box 357366, Seattle, WA 98195-7366, USA

[4] Phyllis F. Cantor Center, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, 450 Brookline Ave, LW 518, Boston, MA 02215, USA

[5] Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Washington Seattle, Box 354237, Seattle, WA 98195-4237, USA

[6] Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, 825 Eastlake Ave E, Seattle, WA 98109, USA

[7] Biostatistics & Computational Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, 450 Brookline Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA

[8] Radiation Oncology, University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, WA 98195, USA

关键词: Internet;    Coaching;    Symptoms;    Cancer;    Patient-provider communication;   

Others  :  856919
DOI  :  10.1186/1471-2407-14-513

 received in 2013-12-11, accepted in 2014-07-09,  发布年份 2014

【 摘 要 】

Background

The electronic self report assessment - cancer (ESRA-C), has been shown to reduce symptom distress during cancer therapy The purpose of this analysis was to evaluate aspects of how the ESRA-C intervention may have resulted in lower symptom distress (SD).

Methods

Patients at two cancer centers were randomized to ESRA-C assessment only (control) or the Web-based ESRA-C intervention delivered to patients’ homes or to a tablet in clinic. The intervention allowed patients to self-monitor symptom and quality of life (SxQOL) between visits, receive self-care education and coaching to report SxQOL to clinicians. Summaries of assessments were delivered to clinicians in both groups. Audio-recordings of clinic visits made 6 weeks after treatment initiation were coded for discussions of 26 SxQOL issues, focusing on patients’/caregivers’ coached verbal reports of SxQOL severity, pattern, alleviating/aggravating factors and requests for help. Among issues identified as problematic, two measures were defined for each patient: the percent SxQOL reported that included a coached statement, and an index of verbalized coached statements per SxQOL. The Wilcoxon rank test was used to compare measures between groups. Clinician responses to problematic SxQOL were compared. A mediation analysis was conducted, exploring the effect of verbal reports on SD outcomes.

Results

517 (256 intervention) clinic visits were audio-recorded. General discussion of problematic SxQOL was similar in both groups. Control group patients reported a median 75% of problematic SxQOL using any specific coached statement compared to a median 85% in the intervention group (p = .0009). The median report index of coached statements was 0.25 for the control group and 0.31 for the intervention group (p = 0.008). Fatigue, pain and physical function issues were reported significantly more often in the intervention group (all p < .05). Clinicians' verbalized responses did not differ between groups. Patients' verbal reports did not mediate final SD outcomes (p = .41).

Conclusions

Adding electronically-delivered, self-care instructions and communication coaching to ESRA-C promoted specific patient descriptions of problematic SxQOL issues compared with ESRA-C assessment alone. However, clinician verbal responses were no different and subsequent symptom distress group differences were not mediated by the patients' reports.

Trial registration

NCT00852852; 26 Feb 2009

【 授权许可】

   
2014 Berry et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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