Perceptions of Health Professionals Confronted With Palliative Situations

Incurable Pathologies Clinical Trial

Official title:

Preliminary Study: Perceptions of Doctors and Caregivers Confronted With Adult Patients in Advanced or Terminal Stage of a Severe, Progressive and Incurable Pathology in the Services of the Hospitals University of Strasbourg Including Beds Identified Palliative Care

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03021967
• Other study ID #: 5581
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: January 12, 2017
• Last updated: May 15, 2017
• Start date: July 2014
• Est. completion date: January 2017

Study information

• Verified date: May 2017
• Source: University Hospital, Strasbourg, France
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

Hospitals, doctors and caregivers, who take care of increasingly heavy patients, are faced with ever more complex situations, particularly in the case of severe, progressive, and incurable pathologies.

Thanks to their willingness and expertise, these care providers try to guarantee the continuity and quality of care for both patients and patients in a palliative situation. Nevertheless, these same actors testify to the complexity they encounter in the care of patients in advanced or terminal stages, especially since the concept of "palliative care", which was often erroneously reduced during the Any end of life and therefore death, remains a source of questions, contradictions, even resistances.

In this context, how do physicians and caregivers appropriate palliative care? How do they react to the complexity and intensity of certain situations? Do they have specific expectations of help or support in the face of certain difficulties? Are there actions to be carried out and developed to make the aid given to these actors of the palliative approach more efficient?

These are the topics that the HUS palliative care service proposes to explore through a study of physicians and caregivers working in HUS services for adult patients with LISP.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 20
• Est. completion date: January 2017
• Est. primary completion date: January 2017
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Major hospitals, doctors and caregivers, who take care of increasingly heavy patients

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patient under 18 years

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Incurable Pathologies

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
France	Service Soins Palliatifs	Strasbourg

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University Hospital, Strasbourg, France

Country where clinical trial is conducted

France, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Questionnaire		3 months