Lung cancers patients often experience multiple symptoms (e.g. fatigue, dyspnea, distress, depression, sleep disturbance). The current study attempts to explore the efficacy of the Smart Self-Management Support Programme (3S) in improving quality of life of patients using self-management support programme with mobile devices.
Conditions: Lung Cancer
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- Patients:
- Aged 18 years or above
- Diagnosis of advanced-stage (stage III or stage IV) non-small cell lung cancer
- Ambulatory and capable of all self-care activities (ECOG ≤2)
- Either undergoing or has finished oncology therapy
- Mentally, cognitively and physically fit to join as determined by the doctor in charge and responsible clinical investigators
- Can speak and read Chinese
- Willing to complete the patient-reported outcome questionnaire
- Has a smartphone with WhatsApp or WeChat
- Aged 18 years or above
- Family caregivers of recruited patients
Exclusion Criteria
- Preparing for lung operation
- Skeletal fragility
- Serious active infection
- Inability to walk
- Previously untreated symptomatic brain metastases
- Severe respiratory insufficiency
- Uncontrolled pain
- Diagnosed psychiatric illness with or without medication
- Family Caregivers:
- Unable to speak and read Chinese
- Unwilling to complete the patient-reported outcome questionnaire
Eligibility criteria are kept as the original English records from ClinicalTrials.gov; actual eligibility is determined by the research team's formal assessment and the informed consent form. Source: ClinicalTrials.gov, updated automatically every two weeks. Last synced: 2026年10月8日.