Observational studyPsycho-oncology2019
Examining the feasibility, acceptability, and potential utility of mobile distress screening in adult cancer patients.
Observational study in Psycho-oncology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Smartphone-Based Passive Sensing in Monitoring Patients With Cancer: A Systematic Review.JCO clinical cancer informatics · 2023Pooled it
- Mobile Health (Cancer management and research · 2026Review
- Defining and Assessing Distress in Oncology Patients: A Systematic Review of the Literature.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Cancer Patients' Perspectives and Requirements of Digital Health Technologies: A Scoping Literature Review.Cancers · 2024Article
- A multi-dimensional assessment of financial hardship of cancer patients using existing health system data.Cancer medicine · 2023Article
- Review
- Web-Based Patient-Reported Outcome Measures for Personalized Treatment and Care (PROMPT-Care): Multicenter Pragmatic Nonrandomized Trial.Journal of medical Internet research · 2020Article
Corrections and comments
- Erratum issuedErratum.2020
Authors and funding
6 authors.
Funding
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Abstract
objectiveA common method of distress monitoring in cancer patients relies on static and retrospective data collected in-person at the time of a health care provider appointment. Relatively little work has examined the potential usefulness of mobile distress monitoring using cancer patients' smartphones. The current study deployed longitudinal distress monitoring using secure text messaging.
methodsIn an observational study, a total of 52 cancer patients receiving active cancer treatment (M
resultsCancer patients completed a distress screener 75% of the time they received a text message. On average, it took less than a minute to complete each mobile distress screener. Geolocation data indicated that cancer patients completed distress screeners across a range of locations. Analyses of model fit of distress scores indicated significant heterogeneity in variability of distress scores over time and across cancer patients (AIC = 630.5). Quantitative feedback from cancer patients at the end of the study indicated high ease of use, ease of learning, and satisfaction of completing mobile distress screeners.
conclusionsThese findings support the use of secure text messaging to monitor longitudinal, out of clinic, distress in cancer patients. Findings also highlight the importance of mobile-based approaches to distress screening in order to maximize opportunities to intervene.
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