Quality of life follow-up cohort of patients with incurable cancer and their caregivers attending a community cancer center
Not Applicable
Recruiting
- Conditions
- Neoplasms
- Registration Number
- KCT0009177
- Lead Sponsor
- Chungnam National University
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 1152
Inclusion Criteria
(1) a patient
[Joint criteria]
- Subjects over 19 years of age
- Patients diagnosed with cancer (solid/blood cancer) that cannot be cured as of the registration date; or
a cancer patient who refused chemotherapy, surgery, or radiation therapy for treatment purposes regardless of stage
- Patients who have been informed and agreed to this study
(2) Caregiver
- Subjects over 19 years of age
- Caregivers of cohort registered patients
- A guardian who accompanies the patient's care, primarily providing care, or a guardian who actively intervenes in the patient's care decisions
- Anyone who has listened to the explanation and agreed to this study
Exclusion Criteria
(1) Patient
- If the cancer is not confirmed histologically
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Observational Study
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Primary research objectives: Descriptive statistics, degree of change, and change analysis of the 1, 3, 6, 9, 12-month quality of life, HADS, and NRS score of palliative care patrons
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Time effect analysis of whole body condition after conduit insertion;A Survival Analysis of Patient's Death with Active Treatment;Comparative analysis of quality of life according to treatment in patients with complications;An Analysis of Quality of Life by Nutrition;Descriptive statistics and comparative analysis of survival or clinical outcomes of patients who turned on from other hospitals;Pre-death hospice utilization rate;Descriptive statistics on death status;E.R. and intensive care unit utilization and hospice death status;Comparative analysis of death by hospitalization;Descriptive statistics on the types of documents related to life-sustaining care, the ratio of preparation, etc;Statistics of aggressive anti-cancer treatment before death and analysis of factors affecting them;Descriptive statistics and comparative analysis of mortality according to emergency room use;Guardians burden of care and bevection technical statistics