Identification of Obstacles and Levers to Interdisciplinary Work in Palliative Care Units

Palliative Care Clinical Trial

— Work-in-PCU  

Official title:

Identification of Obstacles and Levers to Interdisciplinary Work in Palliative Care Units

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT06208644
• Other study ID #: 9027
• Status: Completed
• Start date: August 25, 2023
• Est. completion date: October 25, 2023

Study information

• Verified date: January 2024
• Source: University Hospital, Strasbourg, France
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

Palliative care is active care delivered by a multidisciplinary team, in a global approach to the person suffering from a serious, progressive illness, in an advanced phase, with a fatal outcome. Their goal is to relieve physical pain and other symptoms, but also to take into account psychological, social and spiritual suffering.

Palliative care and support are interdisciplinary. They are aimed at the patient as an individual, their family and loved ones, at home or in an institution. Training and support for caregivers and volunteers are part of this approach.

Recent years have seen the development of teaching in the discipline both during the initial course and through continuing training actions, the latter based on the very notion of multi-professionality. But it is clear that during the initial course of health professionals, learning remains confined to professions, in silos.

It is in view of this observation that the 2015-2018 palliative care development plan in France proposed the establishment of transversal teaching, for health students, through its measures 4.1 and 4.2, lessons put in place at through local initiatives which are still underdeveloped.

It is therefore appropriate to question the methods of learning "know how to work together". This work therefore aims to reflect, through what can promote but also hinder interdisciplinary work, on the way in which health students can be taught to work in interdisciplinarity and in particular during their internships in palliative care structures

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 50
• Est. completion date: October 25, 2023
• Est. primary completion date: October 25, 2023
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Health professionals, all professions combined, working in palliative care units agreeing to participate in research

• Health students (hospital students, nurses, etc.) doing an internship in a palliative care unit agreeing to participate in research

• Agreeing to participate in the study

Exclusion Criteria:

• Refusal to participate in research

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Palliative Care

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
France	Service de soins Palliatifs - CHU de Strasbourg - France	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	Review of the perception of interdisciplinarity and interdisciplinary work among staff working or doing an internship in a palliative care unit	The study consisted of an inventory of the perception of interdisciplinarity and interdisciplinary work among staff working or doing an internship in a palliative care unit	Study covers the period from August 25, 2023 to October 25, 2023