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. 2025 Aug 22;15(8):e099241. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2025-099241

Table 1. Schedule of enrolment, interventions and assessments of the PECAN trial.

Timepoint Study period
Enrolment Allocation Post-allocation
-t2
Referral
-t1
telephone consult
0 t1
baseline
t2
6 weeks after baseline
t3
12 weeks after baseline
t4
6 Mo after baseline
t5
12 Mo after baseline
Enrolment
 Eligibility screen X
 Informed consent X
 Randomisation X
 Allocation X
Interventions
Education PA coaching
 eHealth intervention n=90 x x
 Face-to-face intervention n=90 x x
 Usual care n=90
Assessments
 Pain-related disability (primary outcome)* X X X X
 Pain-related outcomes, including pain beliefs and attitudes (key secondary outcome)* X (X) X X X
 Physical outcomes* X X X X
 Psychosocial outcomes* X X X X
 Health economic outcomes* X X
*

See online supplemental appendix C for details on the content of the different assessments at each point in time.

Primary endpoint of the trial.

The key secondary outcome ‘pain beliefs and attitudes’ is the only outcome collected at 6 weeks.

PA, physical activity; PECAN, Pain Education and Coaching of Activity Needs in breast cancer survivors.