Feasibility of a Smart-Phone App for Patients With Advanced Renal Cell Carcinoma Undergoing Combination Immunotherapy

Renal Cell Carcinoma Stage IV Clinical Trial

Official title:

The Feasibility of an Educational and Monitoring Smart-Phone Application for Patients With Advanced Renal Cell Carcinoma Undergoing Combination Immunotherapy

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Active, not recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT05579847
• Other study ID #: MCC-21569
• Status: Active, not recruiting
• Start date: October 19, 2022
• Est. completion date: January 7, 2025

Study information

• Verified date: February 2024
• Source: H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

The purpose of the study is to test and understand acceptability and preliminary effectiveness of a mobile educational app specifically customized to patients with advanced Renal Cell Carcinoma (RCC) receiving therapy with combination immunotherapy.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Active, not recruiting
• Enrollment: 20
• Est. completion date: January 7, 2025
• Est. primary completion date: January 7, 2024
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patients with Stage IV Renal Cell Carcinoma

• Within 3 weeks from starting combination immune checkpoint blockade with tyrosine kinase inhibitor or multikinase inhibitor

• Estimated survival of 6 months or more

• Able to read and speak English

Exclusion Criteria:

• Unable to read or speak English

• Enrolled in another clinical trial

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Carcinoma
• Carcinoma, Renal Cell
• Renal Cell Carcinoma Stage IV

Intervention

Other:
• mHealth Smart Phone Application
The mHealth interactive application consists of educational intervention geared towards eligible patients who are receiving Nivolumab/ Pembro with Axitinib/Cabozantinib/Lenvatinib. These patients commonly experience immune-related side effects, higher rate of fatigue, high blood pressure, and palmar-plantar erythrodysesthesia. The educational intervention will consist of multiple modules covering relevant information on treatment and adverse events and provided over a six-week period through an mHealth platform. This educational intervention includes a patient-friendly algorithm for early detection and management of the most common adverse events in patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma receiving combination immunotherapy.

Behavioral:
• eHEALS digital literacy test
The eHEALS digital literacy test is an 8-item measure of eHealth literacy developed to measure the participants combined knowledge, comfort and perceived skills at finding, evaluating and applying electronic health information to health problems. The test is measured with a 5-point Likert scale with response options ranging from "strongly disagree" to "strongly agree." Total scores of the eHEALS are summed to range from 8 to 40, with higher scores representing higher self-perceived eHealth literacy.
• Weekly Quiz
Participants will take a weekly true/false quiz to assess knowledge of their diagnosis, expected outcome and treatment associated adverse effects at baseline and longitudinally. Each quiz will be administered at the beginning of the week before the weekly educational content is available, then the same quiz will be administered after the educational content is reviewed by the patient. Each quiz will be scored based on the number of correct answers.
• European Organization for the Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life Questionnaire
The European Organization for the Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life Questionnaire (EORTC QLQ C-30) comprises 30 single questions, 24 of which are aggregated into nine multi-item scales, that is, five functioning scales (physical, role, cognitive, emotional and social), three symptom scales (fatigue, pain and nausea/vomiting) and one global health status scale. The remaining six single-item (dyspnea, appetite loss, sleep disturbance, constipation, diarrhea and the financial impact) scales assess symptoms. No item occurs in more than one scale. Scoring of the QLQ-C30 is performed according to QLQ-C30 Scoring manual. All of the scales and single-item measures range in score from 0 to 100. Higher score for the functioning scales and global health status denote a better level of functioning (i.e. a better state of the patient), while higher scores on the symptom and single-item scales indicate a higher level of symptoms (i.e. a worse state of the patient).
• Patient Post Intervention Survey
The Patient Post Intervention Survey is a 7 question survey to help determine the effectiveness of the mHealth app. 3 questions are open fields for patient feedback, and 4 questions ask how often the app was used, how often the educational module was used and if the patient found it useful.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	Moffitt Cancer Center	Tampa	Florida

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute	Pfizer

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Acceptability of Smart Phone Application	Patient's acceptability of the smart phone application for education will be captured in the patient post education survey.	at 6 months
Secondary	Efficacy of Smart Phone Application -Quality of Life	Efficacy of the smart phone application on patient quality of life will be assessed by the European Organization for the Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life Questionnaire (EORTC QLQ C-30) scores.	at 6 months
Secondary	Efficacy of Smart Phone Application - Patient Knowledge	Efficacy of the smart phone application on patient knowledge of their diagnosis and treatment will be assessed by weekly true/false quizzes.	Weekly, beginning at baseline to month 6

External Links

•   Moffitt Cancer Center Clinical Trials website