CANCER PAIN AND TREATMENT CHARACTERISTICS in GERMANY – A CROSS_SECTIONAL ONLINE PATIENT SURVEY (CANPAIN)

Study type

• Study topic:
  Disease /health condition
• Study type:
  Non-interventional study
• Scope of the study:
  Disease epidemiology
• Data collection methods:
  Primary data collection

Non-interventional study

• Non-interventional study design:
  Cohort

  Cross-sectional

Population studied

• Short description of the study population:
  German cancer patients.
• Age groups:
  Children (2 to < 12 years)

  Adolescents (12 to < 18 years)

  Adults (18 to < 46 years)

  Adults (46 to < 65 years)

  Adults (65 to < 75 years)

  Adults (75 to < 85 years)

  Adults (85 years and over)
• Special population of interest:
  Other
• Special population of interest, other:
  Cancer patients
• Estimated number of subjects:
  5000

Study design details

• Main study objective:
  To assess pain and treatment characteristics in German cancer patients.
• Data analysis plan:
  Data are analyzed using descriptive statistics, cross-tabulations, and correlations. For continuous variables, descriptive statistics are summarized by the number of patients (n), mean ± standard deviation (SD), 95% confidence intervals (95%-CI) of the mean, median, and range (minimum – maximum) values. For categorical and ordinal variables data are summarized by frequency number (n) and percentage (%) of participants in each category, where appropriate, 95% confidence intervals were added.