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Remote symptoms monitoring with mobile app

Mentora app

Catarina Ribeiro, MD, MSc

Filipa Silva

Catarina Ribeiro

With the growing number of cancer survivors, challenges to deal with comorbidities and impacted quality of life of cancer survivors by the disease and treatments also surge. Symptoms and Adverse Events are common and insufficiently monitored in real time / real life, which leads to increased symptom burden, treatment delays and unplanned hospital admissions. Remote monitoring apps have been shown to improve quality of life, symptom control and survival in published clinical trials, but no data with such interventions exists on the Portuguese population.

We will conduct a pilot study to explore the feasibility of a mobile app for remote symptom monitoring in cancer patients. Patients will be recruited in Portuguese hospitals and will be invited to test the app for one month. Patient experience and satisfaction will be assessed via a weekly survey.

The results of this pilot study will inform subsequent randomized clinical trials to test safety and efficacy of remote monitoring and lifestyle interventions to improve symptoms control and quality of life.

This is a single cohort study on cancer patients to explore the feasibility of mobile app for symptom monitoring and inform future randomized clinical trials and implementation. Patients will be screened at oncology visits for inclusion criteria and will be invited to use a mobile app to monitor and track treatment side-effects.

We will recruit a minimum of 10 cancer patients under systemic anti-neoplasic treatment being followed in medical oncology departments in portuguese hospitals. between February 1st and March 30th.

Participants will be invited to register their treatment side effects and symptoms on a health app designed for this purpose.

The Mentora Health App include a PRO-CTCAE™ based tool (a patient-reported outcome measurement system developed by the National Cancer Institute), version 1.1, that includes 80 symptoms (attachment 1) and has been translated and validated to Portuguese (Portugal) by the authoring entity. These symptoms are graded on a five-point scale from 0 (not present) to 4 (disabling) based on clinical criteria.

Mobile App for Symptoms Monitoring in Cancer Patients: a Pilot Study

Single Arm Pilot Study on a Mobile App for Symptoms Monitoring in Cancer Patients on Active Treatments

acceptability of the MHapp, measured by adherence to self-reporting will be assessed at 1 month. The outcome will be considered positive if at least one of the 2 following criteria applies to more than 60% of participants enrolled: replies to 2 or more weekly reports OR at least one weekly log to the app.

% of side effects and adverse events reported on medical appointments also registered in mh

Total attendance - retention rate/total withdraw from study (30 days)

Higher values after the 1 month intervention mean positive impact with increased quality of life

number of unplanned hospital visits or calls; unplanned hospitalizations; time inside medical appointments

Number of grade 3 and 4 adverse events reported

Satisfaction of clinical oncology doctors and nurses with the information report provided by the MHapp on a Likert scale from 0 (not satisfied at all) to 7 (Very satisfied) and through qualitative analysis of open ended questions

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Arm MH - mobile Mentora app to monitor and track treatment side-effects, vital signs, therapeutics and daily habits;

Participants will be invited to register their treatment side effects, symptoms, daily activities and exercise and QoL on a health app designed for this purpose.

The Mentora Health App includes a tool based on PRO-CTCAE™, a patient-reported outcome measurement system developed by the National Cancer Institute, version 1.1, that includes 80 symptoms (attachment 1) and has been translated and validated to Portuguese (Portugal) by the authoring entity. These symptoms are graded on a five-point scale from 0 (not present) to 4 (disabling) based on clinical criteria.

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With the growing number of cancer survivors, challenges to deal with comorbidities and impacted quality of life of cancer survivors by the disease and treatments also surge. Symptoms and Adverse Events are common and insufficiently monitored in real time / real life, which leads to increased symptom burden, treatment delays and unplanned hospital admissions. Remote monitoring apps have been shown to improve quality of life, symptom control and survival in published clinical trials, but no data with such interventions exists on the Portuguese population.

A phase II randomized controlled trial to explore the feasibility of a mobile app for remote symptom monitoring in cancer patients will be done. Patients will be recruited in Portuguese Hospitals and will be invited to test the app for three months. Patient experience and satisfaction will be assessed via a weekly survey. Quality of life will be assessed at 1 and 3 months.

The results of this pilot study will inform subsequent randomized clinical trials to test safety and efficacy of remote monitoring and lifestyle interventions to improve symptoms control and quality of life.

The primary aim is to assess the feasibility and usability of a mobile app (MHapp) to remote register and monitor treatment side effects, lifestyle habits and clinical data in cancer patients.

This is a phase II randomized controlled trial with two study arms:

Arm MH - mobile Mentora app to monitor and track treatment side-effects, vital signs, therapeutics and daily habits; Arm C - SOC

No sham intervention is thought to be viable as we want to test the MHapp as a whole complex intervention with all different components and compare it with current SOC. Patients will be screened at oncology visits for inclusion criteria. It is not viable also to blind clinicians once the app provides a detailed progress report of which we want to assess the impact on oncology care and clinical team satisfaction. We will blind statisticians and people performing the final analysis.

Once agreeing to enrol, patients will be randomly allocated to one of the study arms through a computer generated sequence of numbers, concealed from the clinical staff and patients.

8.1 Study design and Population

Randomized controlled clinical trial with two arms - arm MH (intervention with the MH app) and arm C (controls - standard of care). We will recruit 50 cancer patients in systemic treatments in Portuguese hospitals with oncology service.

Inclusion criteria:

adults (18 years old or older) with a cancer diagnosis at any stage Receiving systemic chemotherapy not in the context of a clinical trial, with treatment expected to continue for at least three months counting from time of enrollment fluent in written Portuguese with a personal mobile smartphone (android or iphone any version) willing to give informed consent for study participation

Exclusion criteria:

Cognitive impairment or disability that limits capacity to comply with study interventions and assessments Having a life expectancy \< 3 months as determined by the attending oncologist ECOG performance status greater than 2 Unable to read and comprehend portuguese language text Participants will remain on study until discontinuation of cancer treatment, voluntary withdrawal, or death.

MentorApp for Cancer Patient's Remote Monitoring

Randomized Controlled Trial of a Mobile App for Remote Patient Monitoring in Oncology: a Phase II Trial

The outcome will be considered positive if at least one of the 2 following criteria applies to more than 60 percent of participants enrolled:

replies to 2 or more weekly reports OR at least one weekly log in to the app.

Patient's satisfaction with the app will be documented via survey at 1 week, 1 month and 3 months from D1 and interview at 1 month; Satisfaction of clinical oncology doctors and nurses with the information report provided by the MHapp on a Likert scale from 0 (not satisfied at all) to 7 (Very satisfied) and through qualitative analysis of open ended questions via interview at the end of the study period

General question about usability and ease of use will be asked on the survey done at 1 week, 1 month and 3 months from D1 and explored in further detail at the interview at 1 month;

Percentage of side effects and adverse events reported on medical appointments also registered in the MHapp during the 1st month on study Total attendance - retention rate/total withdraw from study (30 days)

Report healthcare resources use:

number of unplanned hospital visits or calls; unplanned hospitalizations; time inside medical appointments.

Study title	NCT ID	Conditions	Interventions	Eligibility	Organization
Mobile App for Symptoms Monitoring in Cancer Patients: a Pilot Study	NCT04572282	Cancer Symptoms and Si... Quality of Life Chemotherapeuti...	Mentora app	18 Years -	Associacao de Investigacao de Cuidados de Suporte em Oncologia
MentorApp for Cancer Patient's Remote Monitoring	NCT04710472	Cancer	Mentora App	18 Years -	Associacao de Investigacao de Cuidados de Suporte em Oncologia
MentorApp for Cancer Patient's Remote Monitoring	NCT04710472	Cancer	Mentora App	18 Years -	Associacao de Investigacao de Cuidados de Suporte em Oncologia

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