Impact of a Booklet-Question List on Cancer Patients or Their Families Seeking Prognostic Information During a Palliative Care Consultation

Completed

• Conditions: Metastatic Cancer; Palliative Care
• Interventions: Other: Booklet-Question List

• Registration Number: NCT02854293
• Lead Sponsor: Institut Curie

Brief Summary

Prospective, randomized, multicentre phase III study to evaluate the level and type of information requested by patients or families during a palliative care consultation after they have been given the Booklet-Question List (BQL).

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2012-05
• Primary Completion: 2015-05
• Study Completion: 2015-05
• Status Verified: 2016-07
• Study First Submitted: 2016-07-27
• Study First Submitted QC: 2016-08-02
• Last Update Submitted: 2016-08-02
• Study First Posted: 2016-08-03
• Last Update Posted: 2016-08-03

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 121

Inclusion Criteria

Not provided

Exclusion Criteria

Not provided

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Booklet-Question List (BQL) group	Booklet-Question List	76 patients

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
The number of questions asked or the concerns expressed that elicit a medical comment by the patient or the family during the palliative care consultation.	one month

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
HADS (Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale) anxiety and depression score	one month
QLQC-15Pal palliative quality of life score	one month	The EORTC QLQ-C15-PAL is a questionnaire developed to assess the quality of life of palliative cancer care patients
Two 5-point Likert scales on information needs and satisfaction with medical information	one month
Specific questionnaire on the Booklet-Question List (mode of use, satisfaction)	one month
MB coping questionnaire score	one month	The Brief COPE is the abbreviated version of the COPE Inventory and assesses dispositional as well as situational coping efforts . The 28-item Brief COPE (consisting of 14 subscales) has acceptable psychometric properties and has been used extensively to examine the relationship between various coping strategies and psychological outcomes

Trial Locations

Locations (5)

Centre Alexis Vautrin; 🇫🇷 Nancy, France

Léon Berard; 🇫🇷 Lyon, France

Hopital René Huguenin; 🇫🇷 Saint Cloud, France

Polyclinique de l'Ormeau; 🇫🇷 Tarbes, France

Institut Curie; 🇫🇷 Paris, France