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Healing Gardens: Leveraging Serious Games to Deliver Accessible Pain-CBT and Pharmacologic Support for Patients With Advanced Cancer Managing Pain

Not yet recruitingNot applicableNCT07825051
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This study has no listed site in Canada in this snapshot. It is included as part of the worldwide chronic pain corpus.

Brief summary (from the registry)

This study is being done to determine the feasibility and acceptability of Healing Gardens, a standalone mobile health serious game designed to deliver pain-CBT and cancer pain education to help patients with advanced cancer manage chronic pain.

Study details

Official title
Healing Gardens: Leveraging Serious Games to Deliver Accessible Pain-CBT and Pharmacologic Support for Patients With Advanced Cancer Managing Pain
Conditions
Interventions
  • Behavioral: Healing Gardens content development/refinement activities
  • Behavioral: Healing Gardens serious game
Sponsor
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Collaborators
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Start date
2027-02-13
Primary completion
2030-06-01
Sex
All
Age range
from 18 Years
Results posted
No results posted in this snapshot
Countries
United States
Total sites listed
2

Eligibility criteria

Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * Age ≥ 18 years * Patient is diagnosed with a locally advanced or metastatic solid tumor malignancy, either undergoing active treatment or receiving treatment for an advanced cancer or are receiving supportive/palliative care at DFCI * Chronic pain related to cancer or treatment (\> pain score of 4 on a 0-10 scale on average over the past two weeks, Numeric Rating Scale) * Own/use a compatible device (e.g., smartphone, laptop) Exclusion Criteria: * Patients in survivorship: patients who have completed their treatment regimens, are not actively receiving curative or palliative treatment for an advanced cancer, or have a cancer that is in remission * Cognitive impairment that would interfere with study participation, as judged by the treating clinician (e.g. delirium, dementia) * Inability to speak English (the intervention has not yet been translated to other languages) * Enrolled in hospice * Currently hospitalized * Pain primarily related to a recent surgery (within the last 2 weeks) * Conditions that hinder device use (e.g., vision impairment) * We will exclude adults who are unable to consent, individuals who are not yet adults (infants, children, teenagers), pregnant women, and prisoners.

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT07825051