Confirming And Notifying Death (CANDELS)
Confirming And Notifying Death : Blended Learning and Its Evaluation by Medical Students, an Acceptability Study"
Most physicians are confronted with the death of patients during their practice, often as early as residency. It is their legal responsibility to certify a patient's death, as well as often to notify their loved ones.
Yet, these duties currently receive little or no specific training during the various cycles of medical education.
This task is not easy, however, and young professionals experience it with difficulty. Literature data show that residents are confronted with death late in their medical education and that they are insufficiently prepared when they have to perform their first death certificate. Indeed, residents report significantly correlated practical and emotional difficulties. These difficulties are notably linked to a feeling of lack of preparation through theoretical courses, a lack of familiarity with administrative procedures, and insufficient mastery of communicating with families. The highlighting of these difficulties and the desire for appropriate and respectful care for the deceased and their families, for whom the moment of announcement influences the experience of grief, call for an improvement in teaching on these topics. It is in this sense that the project was born to explore whether the creation of training, before their independent exposure to death and its announcement, i.e. at the end of the second cycle, was relevant. A prerequisite for this type of training project is indeed to question the acceptability of such an approach by students.
Study Overview
Status
Conditions
Study Type
Enrollment (Estimated)
Contacts and Locations
Study Contact
- Name: Catherine CHEVALIER-LAMOUILLE, MD
- Phone Number: 33 3 88 11 65 86
- Email: catherine.lamouille@chru-strasbourg.fr
Study Locations
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Strasbourg, France, 67091
- Recruiting
- Service de soins Palliatifs - CHU de Strasbourg - France
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Contact:
- Catherine CHEVALIER-LAMOUILLE, MD
- Phone Number: 33 3 88 11 65 86
- Email: catherine.lamouille@chru-strasbourg.fr
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Principal Investigator:
- Catherine CHEVALIER-LAMOUILLE, MD
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Principal Investigator:
- Daphné PRIEUR-DREVON, MD
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Participation Criteria
Eligibility Criteria
Ages Eligible for Study
- Adult
- Older Adult
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Sampling Method
Study Population
Description
Inclusion Criteria:
- DFASM3 student,
- At the Faculty of Medicine of Strasbourg, France, for the 2023-2024 academic year,
- Having taken the national ECOS (thus becoming an intern at the start of the following academic year in November 2024),
- Aged 18 years or older,
- Not opposed to participating in the study.
- Not having completed an internship in specialized palliative care facilities
Exclusion Criteria:
- Refused to participate in the study.
- Not having taken the national ECOS.
Study Plan
How is the study designed?
Design Details
What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
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To assess the acceptability of training in death certification and death notification to relatives by DFASM3 students in Strasbourg.
Time Frame: At 6 months
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At 6 months
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Collaborators and Investigators
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First Submitted
First Submitted That Met QC Criteria
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Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria
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More Information
Terms related to this study
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Additional Relevant MeSH Terms
Other Study ID Numbers
- 9304
Drug and device information, study documents
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product
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