Identification of Obstacles and Levers to Interdisciplinary Work in Palliative Care Units (Work-in-PCU)

Palliative care is active care delivered by a multidisciplinary team, in a global approach to the person suffering from a serious, progressive illness, in an advanced phase, with a fatal outcome. Their goal is to relieve physical pain and other symptoms, but also to take into account psychological, social and spiritual suffering.

Palliative care and support are interdisciplinary. They are aimed at the patient as an individual, their family and loved ones, at home or in an institution. Training and support for caregivers and volunteers are part of this approach.

Recent years have seen the development of teaching in the discipline both during the initial course and through continuing training actions, the latter based on the very notion of multi-professionality. But it is clear that during the initial course of health professionals, learning remains confined to professions, in silos.

It is in view of this observation that the 2015-2018 palliative care development plan in France proposed the establishment of transversal teaching, for health students, through its measures 4.1 and 4.2, lessons put in place at through local initiatives which are still underdeveloped.

It is therefore appropriate to question the methods of learning "know how to work together". This work therefore aims to reflect, through what can promote but also hinder interdisciplinary work, on the way in which health students can be taught to work in interdisciplinarity and in particular during their internships in palliative care structures

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Palliative Care

• Study Type: Observational
• Enrollment (Actual): 50

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• France
  • Strasbourg, France, 67091
    • Service de soins Palliatifs - CHU de Strasbourg - France

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: Adult; Older Adult
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

• Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

Health professionals working in palliative care unit and Health students (hospital students, nurses, etc.) doing an internship in this unit.

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Health professionals, all professions combined, working in palliative care units agreeing to participate in research
• Health students (hospital students, nurses, etc.) doing an internship in a palliative care unit agreeing to participate in research
• Agreeing to participate in the study

Exclusion Criteria:

• Refusal to participate in research

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Review of the perception of interdisciplinarity and interdisciplinary work among staff working or doing an internship in a palliative care unit	The study consisted of an inventory of the perception of interdisciplinarity and interdisciplinary work among staff working or doing an internship in a palliative care unit	Study covers the period from August 25, 2023 to October 25, 2023

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: University Hospital, Strasbourg, France

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): August 25, 2023
• Primary Completion (Actual): October 25, 2023
• Study Completion (Actual): October 25, 2023

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: January 5, 2024
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: January 5, 2024
• First Posted (Actual): January 17, 2024

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): March 13, 2024
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: March 12, 2024
• Last Verified: January 1, 2024

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: Palliative Care; Palliative Care Units
• Other Study ID Numbers: 9027

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No