Evaluating the feasibility, acceptability and potential effectiveness of complex nursing intervention focused on quality of life assessment on advanced cancer patients with palliative care needs
Completed
- Conditions
- Palliative care (advanced stage cancer patients)Cancer
- Registration Number
- ISRCTN41201864
- Lead Sponsor
- niversity of Genoa (Università di Genova)
- Brief Summary
2017 protocol in: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29158912
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 46
Inclusion Criteria
1. All the PC team members within the two hospices during the modeling and feasibility phase
2. Adult patients (aged >=18 years) newly admitted to hospice units during the 6-month period of the feasibility phase (pre-test= 3 months; post-test= 3 months)
Exclusion Criteria
1. Patients too ill to receive the intervention
2. Unable to give informed consent either due to cognitive impairment or because they are unable to understand Italian
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method