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To describe the the barriers and facilitators experienced by carers and healthcare professionals when managing medicines for pain relief for infants, children, and young people approaching the end of life in out of hospital settings.


Clinical Trial Description

This study aims to hear about the experiences of patients, carers and healthcare professionals when managing pain relief medicines for infants, children and young people (ICYP) at the end of their lives, when they are not in hospital.

The study plans to develop a guide to help educate and empower both carers and healthcare professionals in the best ways to manage pain in this group of patients. This guide will contain basic, easily understood information depending upon both the patient's and carers' needs. Family carers are important in looking after their ICYP with life-threatening illnesses, so they can be cared for at home if they wish. Even with varying levels of support from hospice, hospital or family doctors, such responsibility can be rewarding and scary.

Community based healthcare professionals often have little experience to be able to support good end of life pain care in these patients when at home and there may be problems which prevent them from giving effective treatment. If pain and other symptoms are not well controlled by medicines families often move from their chosen place of care. Carers need to be able to check symptoms to decide which medicines to give and how well they are working, without having any special training; some may have unhelpful views about medicines such as morphine.

Not much research has looked at the problems that carers and healthcare professionals come across when trying to manage a child's pain when they are not in hospital.

Research has already shown that being able to provide the right medicine at the right time means children can be looked after where they want, without unnecessary hospital admissions. It is hoped that the guide will make carers feel more confident in managing pain relief safely, so lessening any worries. Future research is planned to show the value of the guide in a larger study. ;


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NCT number NCT04519632
Study type Observational
Source University of Southampton
Contact Simone Holley, PhD
Phone 00442380595083
Email s.l.holley@soton.ac.uk
Status Recruiting
Phase
Start date July 15, 2019
Completion date January 31, 2021

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