Financial Distress in Patients With Advanced Cancer

Cancer Clinical Trial

— DIFIC  

Official title:

Preliminary Study of Financial Distress and Quality of Life in Patients With Advanced Cancer

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT01868100
• Other study ID #: 2012.762
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: March 2013
• Est. completion date: June 2014

Study information

• Verified date: June 2013
• Source: Hospices Civils de Lyon
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Advanced cancer has an adverse effect in virtually all dimensions of patients' lives (physical, psychosocial, spiritual, familial, role function). One of the less frequently explored effects of cancer is its impact on personal finances and the contribution of financial-related distress to overall suffering and quality of life. Financial issues have been recently found to be the second most frequent source of distress identified by cancer patients in a community cancer center context (22%).

In the context of continuous increased health care costs, it is likely that the frequency of health care related financial problems will keep rising. The relative contribution of these adverse financial events in advanced cancer patients to overall patient distress is not well assessed and this is particularly true in France. The main objective of this work is to determine the association between financial distress and quality of life of patients with advanced cancer in a Public General Hospital and in a Comprehensive Cancer Center. A secondary objective is to characterize the frequency and intensity of financial distress reported by French cancer patients and their impact on their quality of life.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 144
• Est. completion date: June 2014
• Est. primary completion date: June 2014
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patients must be at least 18 years old and have a diagnosis of advanced cancer which is defined as one of the following: recurrent disease, received >2 lines of chemotherapy, locally-advanced disease, metastatic disease, or refractory disease.

• Patients must have a cancer diagnosis of: breast, colon, lung or prostate.

• Patients must be able to understand, read, write, and speak French.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Clinical evidence of cognitive impairment, as determined by the palliative care physician.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Cancer
• Quality of Life

Intervention

Other:
• self-completion questionnaire

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
France	Unité de soins palliatifs Groupement Hospitalier Sud	Pierre-Bénite	Pierre Bénite

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Hospices Civils de Lyon

Country where clinical trial is conducted

France, 

References & Publications (1)

Barbaret C, Brosse C, Rhondali W, Ruer M, Monsarrat L, Michaud P, Schott AM, Delgado-Guay M, Bruera E, Sanchez S, Filbet M. Financial distress in patients with advanced cancer. PLoS One. 2017 May 18;12(5):e0176470. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0176470. eColl — View Citation

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Financial distress and quality of life	FACT-G; FACT-pal; FACT-sp for the quality of life; Self-assessment of financial distress in a 0 to 10 scale(0 no distress; 10 maximal distress)	Cross sectional (one day)