Perceived Burden and Quality of Life of Primary Caregivers of Cancer Patients Aged 70 and Older After 5 Years of Management

Cancer Clinical Trial

— FARAPPAC  

Official title:

Perceived Burden and Quality of Life of Primary Caregivers of Cancer Patients Aged 70 and Older After 5 Years of Management

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT04478903
• Other study ID #: QUIPOURT 2019
• Status: Completed
• Start date: June 15, 2020
• Est. completion date: November 16, 2020

Study information

• Verified date: March 2021
• Source: Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Dijon
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

Cancer is a disease that requires long-term management, especially now that medical advances have transformed most cancers from an acute to a chronic condition. Most of the time, therefore, the help provided by family and friends is long-term.

The negative impact of oncological care on the quality of life of family caregivers has already been studied. The UCOGB carried out a study in 2014 on the primary caregivers of cancer patients aged 70 and over at inclusion and at 3 and 6 months of oncogeriatric care. This study showed that several factors were significantly related to the caregiver's quality of life: the caregiver's age, perception of burden and patient autonomy (18). However, the evolution of quality of life and burden at 5 years has, to our knowledge, never been evaluated.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 62
• Est. completion date: November 16, 2020
• Est. primary completion date: November 16, 2020
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Person who does not object to being included in the study

• Primary caregiver of a cancer patient aged 70 years and over who is managed in one of the centres participating in the study, with a request for an oncogeriatric consultation between 01/06/2014 and 18/03/2015.

• Age = 18 years old

• Good command of the French language

Exclusion Criteria:

• Refusal or linguistic or psychological inability to answer the questionnaires.

• Caregiver whose general condition does not allow him/her to answer a questionnaire

• Death of the caregiver.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Cancer
• Primary Patient Caregiver
• Quality of Life

Intervention

Other:
• Questionnaire
Zarit Burden Inventory French version and SF12

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
France	Chu Dijon Bourgogne	Dijon

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Dijon

Country where clinical trial is conducted

France, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	To determine the quality of life of the primary caregiver of cancer patients 70 years of age and older, 5 years after initial management.	Quality of life is measured using the SF-12 (short form) questionnaire. This is an abbreviated version of the Medical Outcomes Study Short-form General Health survey (SF-36).	Through study completion, an average of 1 year