The effect of community-based palliative support interventions integrated with primary health care (PHC) on caregivers' anxiety, depression and workload and death anxiety of patients with advanced cancer

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Conditions: Condition 1: anxiety. Condition 2: cancer. Condition 3: Supportive treatment. Condition 4: depression. Condition 5: caregivers' burden. Condition 6: death anxiety.
Generalized anxiety disorder
Malignant neoplasms
Encounter for palliative care
Mood disorder due to known physiological condition with major depressive-like episode
F41.1
C00-C97
Z51.5
F06.32

Registration Number: IRCT20180721040540N6

Lead Sponsor: Research assistant of Lorestan University of Medical Sciences

Brief Summary: Not available

Detailed Description: Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status: Complete

Sex: All

Target Recruitment: 148

Inclusion Criteria

Entry criteria for cancer patients: 1- The patient's age should be 18 to 75 years.
2- Patients with advanced cancer based on expert opinion.
3- Be aware of time and place and have consent to participate in the study.
4- Do not have cognitive, vision or hearing problems
5- The patient should have a family caregiver.
6- Have a health file in comprehensive urban health service centers of Khorram Abad city.
7- The patient is undergoing treatment (radiotherapy, chemotherapy, etc.) or has referred to an oncologist to start treatment.
8- The patient is considered to be in the 4th stage of cancer (any type of this disease) diagnosed by a specialist doctor.
Entry criteria for caregivers of cancer patients: 1- Caregiver age should be 18 to 75 years.
2- Consent to participate in the study.
3- Do not have cognitive, vision or hearing problems.
4- A definite diagnosis of one of the types of cancer has been established in a first-degree family member
5- Live with the patient.

Exclusion Criteria

1- Lack of awareness of time and place in the patient or caregiver.
2- Impossibility of the patient or caregiver to attend the training sessions.
3- Having vision, hearing and cognitive problems for the patient or caregiver.