The Wolverhampton Assessment Tool, a Tool for Patient-reported Wellbeing in the Context of Prostate Cancer

This is a study of the Wolverhampton Assessment Tool (WATapp), a five-item questionnaire for patients with advanced or metastatic prostate cancer to say how they feel normally in terms of pain, urinary frequency, eating, and tiredness. It is widely recognised that patient-reported outcomes give a measure of overall effect of clinicians' actions on patients and that they can be used to guide the management of the patient's condition. WATapp is designed to reduce the need for the patient to attend hospital so much for routine follow-up consultations (an important aspect in light of COVID-19), to give the patient some sense of agency and control and to inform his clinician of just he feels he is coping with his treatment. Now the investigators want to find out just how the results from WATapp correspond to, for example, changes in the patient's PSA, testosterone or other blood results which are routinely measured; and to find out how patients and clinicians feel about using WATapp. Men with advanced or metastatic prostate cancer will be eligible to take part in the study and participation is in addition to whatever treatment they are on. Clinicians who choose to offer WATapp to their patients will also be invited to take part and they will be asked to share with the researchers anonymised, linked patient data and scores from WATapp.