Improving palliative care by providing early information to cancer patients: Development and evaluation of a communication skills training program for physicians (PALLI-KOM)
Phase 1
- Conditions
- Palliative care communication skills pf physicians and the quality of the physician-patient-interaction regarding the content of palliative careself-efficacy and self-assurance of the participants as well as the attitude towards patients´ worries as well as fears in regard to death and dying
- Registration Number
- DRKS00017025
- Lead Sponsor
- niversitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Complete
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 141
Inclusion Criteria
Physicians of different specialist qualifications who treat cancer patients in an in- or outpatient setting in Hamburg, Göttingen and Berlin, who have signed a letter of agreement in regard to the study.
Exclusion Criteria
Insufficient German language skills as the training is conducted with German speaking simulated patients and a German written questionnaire must be filled out
Study & Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Phase of development: developing the training by reviewing the current literature and conducting focus groups with physicians of different specialist qualifications.<br>Evaluation: palliative care communication skills
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Self-efficacy, self-confidence, attitude in regard to palliative care.<br>Above that: Satisfaction with and feasibility of the training