From research to relief: improving children’s cancer pain management at home using digital health

Abstract

The RELIEF project’s main aim was to improve pain management of children with cancer at home. To achieve this, three sub-aims were formulated: first, to explore pain prevalence in children with cancer at home (chapter 2); second, to develop and test feasibility (chapter 3) and effectiveness (chapter 4) of a pain monitoring app for the home setting (the KLIK Pijnmonitor app), and third, to assess barriers and facilitators of implementation of digital health tools in clinical care (chapters 5 and 6). This final chapter provides a summary of the main findings of the thesis, followed by implications for clinical practice and future research, strengths, methodological considerations and limitations of the research, and a conclusion. An overview of the studies and main findings presented in this thesis are summarized in Table 1.