Mobile Health Study and Enhanced Symptom Monitoring to Prevent Severe Illness From COVID-19 in Cancer Patients
Mobile Health Study and Enhanced Symptom Monitoring to Prevent Severe Illness From COVID-19 in Cancer Patients
The established Insight(TM) mHealth Platform, a component of the Stephenson Cancer Center (SCC) mHealth Shared Resource will be used to create the "Symptom Tracker" app. The Symptom Tracker (Insight(TM)) app will enable real-time monitoring of cancer patient symptoms that are consistent with early signs of SARS-CoV-2 infection in this high-risk population by automatically (and securely) transferring this information to health care providers. The primary aim of this study is to determine the feasibility, ease of use, and perceived utility of this app to monitor symptoms and health risk behaviors among cancer patients currently receiving chemotherapy.
A total of 500 treatment-seeking males and females will be asked to complete daily monitoring of symptoms via smartphone app. Those who screen positive for COVID-19 will be triaged to emergency or non-emergency medical treatment and will receive a study supplied device to measure their oxygen level and heart rate and be instructed in the device's use. They will be prompted to enter vital signs data (such as oxygen level) daily (and as indicated by changes in status) and questions from the app will change to assess the severity of COVID-19 related symptoms and inform changes in level of care, to emergency or non-emergency medical management as indicated by self-reporting. The proposed study will assess the impact of heightened symptom and vital sign monitoring on the early identification of severe manifestations of COVID-19 in this high-risk population (Aim 2). It is hypothesized that this will significantly improve COVID-19 related morbidity and mortality compared to the national and international rates currently reported in the literature.
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