Financial Distress in Patients With Advanced Cancer

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Cancer; Quality of Life
• Interventions: Other: self-completion questionnaire

• Registration Number: NCT01868100
• Lead Sponsor: Hospices Civils de Lyon

Brief Summary

Advanced cancer has an adverse effect in virtually all dimensions of patients' lives (physical, psychosocial, spiritual, familial, role function). One of the less frequently explored effects of cancer is its impact on personal finances and the contribution of financial-related distress to overall suffering and quality of life. Financial issues have been recently found to be the second most frequent source of distress identified by cancer patients in a community cancer center context (22%).

In the context of continuous increased health care costs, it is likely that the frequency of health care related financial problems will keep rising. The relative contribution of these adverse financial events in advanced cancer patients to overall patient distress is not well assessed and this is particularly true in France. The main objective of this work is to determine the association between financial distress and quality of life of patients with advanced cancer in a Public General Hospital and in a Comprehensive Cancer Center. A secondary objective is to characterize the frequency and intensity of financial distress reported by French cancer patients and their impact on their quality of life.

Detailed Description

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Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2013-03
• Study First Submitted: 2013-05-30
• Status Verified: 2013-06
• Study First Submitted QC: 2013-06-03
• Study First Posted: 2013-06-04
• Primary Completion: 2014-06
• Study Completion: 2014-06
• Last Update Submitted: 2019-05-23
• Last Update Posted: 2019-05-28

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 144

Inclusion Criteria

• Patients must be at least 18 years old and have a diagnosis of advanced cancer which is defined as one of the following: recurrent disease, received >2 lines of chemotherapy, locally-advanced disease, metastatic disease, or refractory disease.
• Patients must have a cancer diagnosis of: breast, colon, lung or prostate.
• Patients must be able to understand, read, write, and speak French.

Exclusion Criteria

• Clinical evidence of cognitive impairment, as determined by the palliative care physician.

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: SINGLE_GROUP

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
self-completion questionnaire	self-completion questionnaire	-

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Financial distress and quality of life	Cross sectional (one day)	FACT-G; FACT-pal; FACT-sp for the quality of life; Self-assessment of financial distress in a 0 to 10 scale(0 no distress; 10 maximal distress)

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Unité de soins palliatifs Groupement Hospitalier Sud; 🇫🇷 Pierre-Bénite, Pierre Bénite, France