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Intervention Toward Truth-Telling and Advanced Directives in the Patient With Advanced or Metastatic Disease

A Longitudinal Study That Assessed the Effectiveness of Intervention Toward

Status
UNKNOWN
Phases
NA
Study type
Interventional
Source
ClinicalTrials.gov
Registry ID
NCT00792896
Enrollment
150
Registered
2008-11-18
Start date
2008-05-31
Completion date
Unknown
Last updated
2008-11-18

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

Advanced Cancer, Metastatic Cancer

Brief summary

Family usually had a lot of burden to tell the truth to patients. The purpose of this study is to assess the effect of education materials and family conference for advanced cancer patients and family.

Interventions

BEHAVIORALfamily conference

family conference

Sponsors

National Science and Technology Council, Taiwan
CollaboratorOTHER_GOV
National Taiwan University Hospital
Lead SponsorOTHER

Study design

Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
20 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No

Inclusion criteria

* advanced or metastatic cancer patients * more than 20 years old * clear consciousness and be able to communicate

Exclusion criteria

* refuse to know the statement of himself/herself disease

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frame
Questionnairesbefore and 1 week after the intervention

Countries

Taiwan

Contacts

Primary ContactWe-Yu Hu, Ph.D
weyuhu@ntu.edu.tw23123456

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026