Perceived Burden and Quality of Life of Primary Caregivers of Cancer Patients Aged 70 and Older After 5 Years of Management

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT04478903

Acronym

FARAPPAC

Enrollment

Registered

2020-07-21

Start date

2020-06-15

Completion date

2020-11-16

Last updated

2021-03-10

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Conditions

Cancer, Primary Patient Caregiver, Quality of Life

Brief summary

Cancer is a disease that requires long-term management, especially now that medical advances have transformed most cancers from an acute to a chronic condition. Most of the time, therefore, the help provided by family and friends is long-term. The negative impact of oncological care on the quality of life of family caregivers has already been studied. The UCOGB carried out a study in 2014 on the primary caregivers of cancer patients aged 70 and over at inclusion and at 3 and 6 months of oncogeriatric care. This study showed that several factors were significantly related to the caregiver's quality of life: the caregiver's age, perception of burden and patient autonomy (18). However, the evolution of quality of life and burden at 5 years has, to our knowledge, never been evaluated.

Interventions

OTHERQuestionnaire

Zarit Burden Inventory French version and SF12

Study design

Observational model

COHORT

Time perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

18 Years to No maximum

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

* Person who does not object to being included in the study * Primary caregiver of a cancer patient aged 70 years and over who is managed in one of the centres participating in the study, with a request for an oncogeriatric consultation between 01/06/2014 and 18/03/2015. * Age ≥ 18 years old * Good command of the French language

Exclusion criteria

* Refusal or linguistic or psychological inability to answer the questionnaires. * Caregiver whose general condition does not allow him/her to answer a questionnaire * Death of the caregiver.

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
To determine the quality of life of the primary caregiver of cancer patients 70 years of age and older, 5 years after initial management.	Through study completion, an average of 1 year	Quality of life is measured using the SF-12 (short form) questionnaire. This is an abbreviated version of the Medical Outcomes Study Short-form General Health survey (SF-36).

Countries

France

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 10, 2026