Study of the Life Stories of Patients Making a Request for Euthanasia, in the Context of Advanced Cancer.

Completed

• Conditions: Advanced Cancer

• Registration Number: NCT05884788
• Lead Sponsor: Centre Leon Berard

Brief Summary

This study wishes to focus on the life course of patients, beyond the moments of suffering experienced at the time of the request for euthanasia. It is based on the perspective that the patient's account of his or her life course can be a source of information for better understanding and accompanying patients requesting euthanasia.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2023-05-09
• Study First Submitted QC: 2023-05-22
• Study Start: 2023-06-01
• Study First Posted: 2023-06-01
• Primary Completion: 2024-07-31
• Study Completion: 2024-07-31
• Status Verified: 2025-04
• Last Update Submitted: 2025-04-11
• Last Update Posted: 2025-04-16

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 7

Inclusion Criteria

• Major patients
• With cancer in the palliative phase, i.e. with an incurable disease according to current knowledge.
• Expressing a request for euthanasia in terms evoking a request for death with the intervention of an outside person.
• Non-opposition to the study after full written information.

Exclusion Criteria

• Severe decompensated psychiatric pathology
• Vulnerable persons defined here as pregnant women, parturients and persons under legal protection or unable to express their consent
• Inability to conduct an interview

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Description of the life stories of patients requesting euthanasia to explore which life experiences are brought forward when making this request, in a context of advanced oncological pathology.	One month	The main objective is to describe the life stories of patients requesting euthanasia in order to discover which life experiences are reasoning in the formulation of this request, in a context of advanced oncological pathology.; The investigators carry out a descriptive analysis of the interviews. The interviews will be analyzed as they are conducted, in order to identify themes of interest. The themes will be compared between the different interviews in order to identify possible trends.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Calculation of the Bartholomew score	One month	Use of specific questionnaire (Relationship Scales Questionnaire of Batholomew) to describe the profiles of the patients in the study
Calculation of the distress thermometer's score	One month	Use of specific questionnaire (NCCN distress thermometer) to describe the profiles of the patients in the study

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Centre Léon Bérard; 🇫🇷 Lyon, France