Dignity Therapy in Germany: A pilot study to evaluate feasibility, acceptability and cultural adaption,of a short term psychotherapeutic intervention in palliative medicine.
- Conditions
- Patients with a terminal illness
- Registration Number
- DRKS00013627
- Lead Sponsor
- niversitätsmedizin Mainz III.Medizinische KlinikInterdisziplinäre Abteilung für Palliativmedizin
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Complete
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 70
Patients admitted to either the palliative care ward of the university clinic of Mainz or Würzburg fulfilling the following inclusion criteria will be included in the study:
- Terminal illness with clinically estimated life expectancy from 2 weeks to 12 months.
- Ability to give informed consent
- Sufficient German language skills
- Possible denomination of a relative for feedback questionnaire.
Relatives:
- = 18 years of age
- Ability to give informed consent
- Sufficient German language skills
- Denominated by the patient, regularly contact to the patient, before, during and after DT
Patient will be excluded if one/more of following criteria are met:
- Insufficient knowledge of German
- Cognitive impairment
- Estimated life expectancy less than 2 Weeks
Relatives will be excluded if one/more of the following criteria are met:
- High emotional burden so that questionnaire can not be filled out
- Not able to understand and answer questionnaire (cognitive impaired)
Study & Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
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- Secondary Outcome Measures
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