Incurable Ill Patients Attitudes Towards Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide
Completed
- Conditions
- Incurable Cancer DiseasesOther Incurable Diseases
- Registration Number
- NCT00495482
- Lead Sponsor
- Klinikum St. Georg gGmbH
- Brief Summary
Euthanasia and assisted dying are of growing interest for patients with incurable diseases. The possible methods are widely discussed by patient-societies, physicians, lawyers, theologians and philosophers. During the last years several opinion-polls were conducted with healthy people or medical stuff, but no surveys were conducted to get the attitude of incurable ill patients.
The hypothesis of the investigators' study is: "Palliative Care Medicine is a better option for incurable ill patients than an assisted suicide."
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 200
Inclusion Criteria
- Age >= 18 years
- Incurable illness
- Mental state thet allows to answer a questionnaire
Exclusion Criteria
- Somnolence
- Low mental state
- Curable disease
- Depression with danger of acute suicide
Study & Design
- Study Type
- OBSERVATIONAL
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Patients intention to assisted suicide up to four weeks after beginning of palliative treatment
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
Klinikum St. Georg gGmbH
🇩🇪Leipzig, Saxonia, Germany