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ArticleQuality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation2022

Feasibility and performance of smartphone-based daily micro-surveys among patients recovering from cancer surgery.

Lisa van den Berg, Philip Brouwer, Nikhil Panda, Maarten M Hoogbergen, Ian Solsky, Jukka-Pekka Onnela, Alex B Haynes, Christopher J Sidey-Gibbons

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Lisa van den Berg *Patient-Reported Outcomes, Value & Experience (PROVE) Center, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, USA.
Philip Brouwer *Patient-Reported Outcomes, Value & Experience (PROVE) Center, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, USA. p.h.brouwer@icloud.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6284-8080
Nikhil Panda *Ariadne Labs, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard. T.H. School of Public Health, Boston, USA.
Maarten M HoogbergenDepartment of Plastic Surgery, Catharina Hospital Eindhoven, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
Ian SolskyDepartment of Surgery, Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, USA.
Jukka-Pekka OnnelaDepartment of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, USA.
Alex B HaynesDepartment of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA.
Christopher J Sidey-Gibbons *Patient-Reported Outcomes, Value & Experience (PROVE) Center, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, USA.

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aimsDaily micro-surveys, or the high-frequency administration of patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs), may provide real-time, unbiased assessments of health-related quality of life (HRQoL). We evaluated the feasibility and accuracy of daily micro-surveys using a smartphone platform among patients recovering from cancer surgery.

methodsIn a prospective study (2017-2019), patients undergoing cancer surgery downloaded a smartphone application that administered daily micro-surveys comprising five randomly selected items from the Short Form-36 (SF-36). Micro-surveys were administered without replacement until the entire SF-36 was administered weekly. The full-length SF-36 was also administered preoperatively and 4, 12, and 24 weeks postoperatively. We assessed response and completion rates between the micro-surveys and full-length SF-36, as well as agreement of responses using Bland-Altman (B&A) analyses.

resultsNinety-five patients downloaded the application and were followed for a mean of 131 days [SD ± 85]. Response rates for the full-length SF-36 and micro-surveys was 76% [95%CI 69, 83], and 34% [95%CI 26, 39]. Despite lower response rates, more SF-36 surveys were collected using the daily micro-surveys compared to the intermittent full-length SF-36 (9.9 [95%CI 8.4, 12.6] vs. 3.0 [95%CI 2.8, 3.3], respectively). B&A analyses demonstrated lack of agreement between micro-surveys and SF-36. However, agreement improved with higher micro-survey completion rate. Eighty-five percent of participants reported that daily micro-surveys were not burdensome.

conclusionThis study suggests that collection of daily micro-surveys among patients recovering from cancer surgery is feasible using smartphones in the early postoperative period. Future implementation of daily micro-surveys may more granularly describe momentary HRQoL changes through a greater volume of self-reported survey data.

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NeoplasmsSmartphoneFeasibility StudiesHumansProspective StudiesQuality of LifeSurveys and QuestionnairesCancer surgeryEcological momentary assessmentQuality of lifeSmartphoneSurveys

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