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

Not Applicable

• Conditions: Advanced Cancer; Metastatic Cancer
• Interventions: Behavioral: family conference

• Registration Number: NCT00792896
• Lead Sponsor: National Taiwan University Hospital

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.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Status Verified: 2008-05
• Study Start: 2008-05
• Study First Submitted: 2008-11-16
• Study First Submitted QC: 2008-11-17
• Last Update Submitted: 2008-11-17
• Study First Posted: 2008-11-18
• Last Update Posted: 2008-11-18
• Primary Completion: 2010-12

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: UNKNOWN
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 150

Inclusion Criteria

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

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Exclusion Criteria

• refuse to know the statement of himself/herself disease

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Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
1	family conference	Family conference + education materials

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Questionnaires	before and 1 week after the intervention

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

National Taiwan University Hospital; 🇨🇳 Taipei, Taiwan