Perceptions and Representations of Cancer Chemotherapy

Completed

• Conditions: Lung Cancer
• Interventions: Other: semi-structured interview conducted by a clinical psychologist; Other: semi-structured interview conducted by a psychiatrist specialized in psycho-oncology

• Registration Number: NCT02851160
• Lead Sponsor: University Hospital, Montpellier

Brief Summary

Qualitative study on data from interviews such patients, relatives and doctors involved in the implementation of cancer care. Framework type of method using grounded theory

Detailed Description

The word chemotherapy itself, because it belongs to the secular knowledge and therefore Doxa is a hard word, which stores what it is stable, common and therefore impersonal. It has the properties of a symbol, that is to say that joint several meanings, some of which are contradictory.

The objective of the research:

To determine the perceptions and representations of chemotherapy, its physical impacts, psychological and relational.

To qualitatively compare the performances of chemotherapy as it has an end as scheduled for adjuvant chemotherapy, or endless precise as in the palliative chemotherapy

Study Timeline

• Status Verified: 2015-03
• Study Start: 2015-03
• Primary Completion: 2015-12
• Study Completion: 2015-12
• Study First Submitted: 2016-06-30
• Study First Submitted QC: 2016-07-27
• Last Update Submitted: 2016-07-27
• Study First Posted: 2016-08-01
• Last Update Posted: 2016-08-01

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 75

Inclusion Criteria

• 30 major Patients with lung cancer requiring chemotherapy either as palliative or adjuvant as surgical treatment
• 30 significant others (relatives) major applicant lung cancer patients chemotherapy either palliation or as adjuvant to surgery
• 15 Doctors oncologists performing either chemotherapy as palliative or adjuvant as surgical treatment

Exclusion Criteria

• NA

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Family of lung cancer patients receiving chemotherapy	semi-structured interview conducted by a clinical psychologist	30 Family of lung cancer patients receiving chemotherapy having a semi-structured interview conducted by a clinical psychologist
doctors caring for lung cancer patients receiving chemotherapy	semi-structured interview conducted by a psychiatrist specialized in psycho-oncology	15 doctors caring for lung cancer patients receiving chemotherapy 15 have a semi-structured interview conducted by a psychiatrist specialized in psycho-oncology
Patients requiring lung cancer chemotherapy	semi-structured interview conducted by a clinical psychologist	30 major Patients with lung cancer requiring chemotherapy either as palliative or adjuvant as surgical treatment having a semi-structured interview conducted by a clinical psychologist

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
The semi-structured interview	1 day (day of inclusion)	The interview will be analyzed in a framework type of method (grounded theory) in accordance with the guidelines coreq.