Metastatic Cancer, Palliative Care
Conditions
Keywords
palliative care, cancer, quality of life
Brief summary
Prospective, randomized, multicentre phase III study to evaluate the level and type of information requested by patients or families during a palliative care consultation after they have been given the Booklet-Question List (BQL).
Interventions
OTHERBooklet-Question List
Booklet-Question List (BQL) proposed in palliative cares, divided into 8 chapters, given to the patient before the first palliative care consultation. Providing a list of questions to patients and their families without any obligations allows individual adaptation of information; patients or families who are afraid of asking these questions can take advantage of this opportunity, while respecting the need to avoid these subjects for other patients
Sponsors
Institut Curie
Study design
Observational model
OTHER
Time perspective
PROSPECTIVE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* Patient over the age of 18 years, * Patient who has signed the informed consent form after being given a written information sheet * Patient followed for metastatic cancer with or without specific treatment, with a limited life expectancy * Patient referred to the palliative care team. * French-speaking Patient
Exclusion criteria
* Cognitive disorders * Documented psychiatric disorders or marked psychological fragility
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| The number of questions asked or the concerns expressed that elicit a medical comment by the patient or the family during the palliative care consultation. | one month |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| HADS (Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale) anxiety and depression score | one month | — |
| QLQC-15Pal palliative quality of life score | one month | The EORTC QLQ-C15-PAL is a questionnaire developed to assess the quality of life of palliative cancer care patients |
| MB coping questionnaire score | one month | The Brief COPE is the abbreviated version of the COPE Inventory and assesses dispositional as well as situational coping efforts . The 28-item Brief COPE (consisting of 14 subscales) has acceptable psychometric properties and has been used extensively to examine the relationship between various coping strategies and psychological outcomes |
| Two 5-point Likert scales on information needs and satisfaction with medical information | one month | — |
| Specific questionnaire on the Booklet-Question List (mode of use, satisfaction) | one month | — |
Countries
France
Outcome results
None listed