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Brief Title: Text Message (SMS) to Help Cancer Patients in Chemotherapy Treatment
Official Title: An Intervention Based on Text Message (SMS) to Help Cancer Patients in Chemotherapy Treatment
Study ID: NCT03087422
Brief Summary: This study evaluates the text message (SMS) with orientation to help the management of chemotherapy treatment.
Detailed Description: The investigators developed an app (called ChemotherApp) for Android that automatically sends text messages with homecare orientation to cancer patients in intervention group. The main features of this app are: to register information such as name, number of cellphone, gender, and chemotherapy schedule of the patient. Other feature is to register the orientation that will be sent to patients by text messages. Daily, the app send a registered orientation to each patient.
Minimum Age: 18 Years
Eligible Ages: ADULT, OLDER_ADULT
Sex: ALL
Healthy Volunteers: No
Federal University of Pelotas, Pelotas, RS, Brazil