Assessment of the Burden Within the Dyad Patient/Caregiver

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Palliative Care
• Interventions: Behavioral: Questionnaires

• Registration Number: NCT00921232
• Lead Sponsor: Centre Oscar Lambret

Brief Summary

This study is about the patients life ending and their caregiver, when a return to home is planned.

This is a behavioral sciences study (= interventional study for french law)

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2007-04
• Primary Completion: 2008-02
• Study Completion: 2008-02
• Study First Submitted: 2009-05-29
• Study First Submitted QC: 2009-06-15
• Study First Posted: 2009-06-16
• Status Verified: 2012-07
• Last Update Submitted: 2012-07-20
• Last Update Posted: 2012-07-23

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 139

Inclusion Criteria

• Patient > 18 years old
• Cancer for which no curative treatment is envisaged
• Palliative treatment only
• For the caregiver: designated by the patient like the referring individual

Exclusion Criteria

Not provided

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: SINGLE_GROUP

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
dyad	Questionnaires	life-ending patient and its caregiver

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Caregiver Reaction Assessment (CRA scale) completed by patient (hetero-perception) and its caregiver (auto-perception)	At baseline, to the announcement of the exclusive palliative care

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Perception of the burden by the patient and its caregiver: search for potential predictive factors of the burden by statistic analysis HADS (The Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale FRI (The Family Relationship Index)	At baseline, to the announcement of the exclusive palliative care
Search for factors influencing the return at home of the life-ending patients by statistic analysis	Death

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Centre Oscar Lambret; 🇫🇷 Lille, France