Mental Stress Symptoms in Family Caregivers of Palliative Patients

Recruiting

• Conditions: Palliative Patients; Family Caregivers
• Interventions: Other: psychometric questionnaires

• Registration Number: NCT05054647
• Lead Sponsor: Medical University of Graz

Brief Summary

Receiving a life-limiting diagnosis is often a shock for those affected as well as for their relatives, which changes the entire life situation of the family. New perspectives often arise, as well as feelings of worry, sadness and powerlessness. Caregiving is often an extreme physical challenge, but above all a psychological one.

Aims of the study

1. To investigate whether family caregivers of palliative patients with severe trait anxiety in the care situation also suffer from severe state anxiety.

2. To investigate whether family caregivers of palliative patients with increased stress levels and burnout-promoting work-related behaviour suffer more from burnout symptoms, health-related anxiety and psychosomatic complaints.

3. To investigate the impact of nursing support by a mobile palliative team on family caregivers of palliative patients.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2021-05-01
• Study First Submitted: 2021-06-30
• Study First Submitted QC: 2021-09-22
• Study First Posted: 2021-09-23
• Status Verified: 2023-01
• Last Update Submitted: 2023-01-10
• Last Update Posted: 2023-01-11
• Primary Completion: 2024-01-01
• Study Completion: 2024-01-01

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: RECRUITING
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 100

Inclusion Criteria

Not provided

Exclusion Criteria

Not provided

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
family caregivers of palliative patients	psychometric questionnaires	psychometric questionnaires

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
burn-out syndrome, Outcome is the difference between measurement 1 (Baseline) and measurement 2 (Follow-up)	2 months	Maslach Burn-out Inventory (MBI), The MBI does not provide a single score but a profile.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
health-related anxiety, Outcome is the difference between measurement 1 (Baseline) and measurement 2 (Follow-up)	2 months	Whiteley Index/Illness Attitude Scale (WI-IAS). Whitely-Index: The Whitely-Index is formed by the sum of the points for each answer - the higher the score, the more likely one is to be hypochondriacal.; IAS: The total score ranges from 0 to108.
State/Trait anxiety, Outcome is the difference between measurement 1 (Baseline) and measurement 2 (Follow-up)	2 months	State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI). Scores range from 20 to 80, with higher scores correlating with greater anxiety.
Work-related behaviour and experience pattern, Outcome is the difference between measurement 1 (Baseline) and measurement 2.	2 months	Work-related behaviour and experience pattern (AVEM), The AVEM questionnaire does not provide a single score but a profile.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Medical University of Graz; 🇦🇹 Graz, Austria