Distress of patients with advanced cancer
Conditions
Interventions
Group 1: A focus group interview with 7 health care professionals and individual cognitive interviews with 10 patients are planned for linguistic and content-related review of the ACPDS questionnaire.
Sponsors
Universitätsmedizin Mainz
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: older than/or 18 years old diagnosis of advanced cancer with palliative care capacity for informed consent comprehension of German language
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: clinical estimation of being in too vulnerable health condition or too distressed to take part in any study cognitive or communicationl deficits estimated life span less one week (dying phase)
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| As a result, a shortened version of the ACPDS, which is improved in terms of content and language, is expected. Patients and health care professionals are interviewed about the ACPDS (Fischbeck et al., 2013). | — |
Countries
Germany
Contacts
Public ContactSandra Mai
Universitätsmedizin MainzInterdisziplinäre Abteilung für Palliativmedizin
Outcome results
None listed