Perceptions of Health Professionals Confronted With Palliative Situations

Preliminary Study: Perceptions of Doctors and Caregivers Confronted With Adult Patients in Advanced or Terminal Stage of a Severe, Progressive and Incurable Pathology in the Services of the Hospitals University of Strasbourg Including Beds Identified Palliative Care

Hospitals, doctors and caregivers, who take care of increasingly heavy patients, are faced with ever more complex situations, particularly in the case of severe, progressive, and incurable pathologies.

Thanks to their willingness and expertise, these care providers try to guarantee the continuity and quality of care for both patients and patients in a palliative situation. Nevertheless, these same actors testify to the complexity they encounter in the care of patients in advanced or terminal stages, especially since the concept of "palliative care", which was often erroneously reduced during the Any end of life and therefore death, remains a source of questions, contradictions, even resistances.

In this context, how do physicians and caregivers appropriate palliative care? How do they react to the complexity and intensity of certain situations? Do they have specific expectations of help or support in the face of certain difficulties? Are there actions to be carried out and developed to make the aid given to these actors of the palliative approach more efficient?

These are the topics that the HUS palliative care service proposes to explore through a study of physicians and caregivers working in HUS services for adult patients with LISP.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Incurable Pathologies

• Study Type: Observational
• Enrollment (Actual): 20

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• France
  • Strasbourg, France, 67091
    • Service Soins Palliatifs

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

• Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

Hospitals, doctors and caregivers, who take care of increasingly heavy patients,

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Major hospitals, doctors and caregivers, who take care of increasingly heavy patients

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patient under 18 years

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Time Frame
Questionnaire	3 months

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: University Hospital, Strasbourg, France
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Laurent CALVEL, MD, PhD, University Hospital, Strasbourg, france

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): July 1, 2014
• Primary Completion (Actual): January 1, 2017
• Study Completion (Actual): January 1, 2017

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: January 12, 2017
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: January 12, 2017
• First Posted (Estimate): January 16, 2017

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): May 16, 2017
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: May 15, 2017
• Last Verified: May 1, 2017

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: palliative care; incurable pathologies
• Other Study ID Numbers: 5581

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO