The Life InSight Application Study (LISA) (LISA)
The Life InSight Application Study: the Role of an Assisted Structured Reflection on Life Events and Ultimate Life Goals to Improve Quality of Life of Cancer Patients
Background:
It is widely recognised that spiritual care plays an important role in physical and psychosocial well-being of cancer patients but there is little evidence based research on the effects of spiritual care. The investigators will conduct the first randomized controlled trial on spiritual care using a brief structured interview scheme supported by an e-application. The aim is to examine whether an assisted reflection on life events and ultimate life goals can improve quality of life of cancer patients.
Design:
Based on the findings of the investigators previous research, the investigators have developed a brief interview model that allows spiritual counselors to explore, explicate and discuss life events and ultimate life goals with cancer patients. To support the interview, the investigators created an e-application for a PC or a tablet. To examine whether this assisted reflection improves quality of life the investigators will conduct a randomized trial. Patients with advanced cancer not amenable to curative treatment options will be randomized to either the intervention or the control group. The intervention group will have two consultations with a spiritual counselor using the interview scheme supported by the e-application. The control group will receive care as usual. At baseline and one and three months after randomization all patients fill out questionnaires regarding quality of life, spiritual wellbeing, empowerment, satisfaction with life, anxiety and depression and health care consumption.
Discussion:
Having insight into one's ultimate life goals may help to cope with a life event such as cancer. This is the first randomized controlled trial to evaluate the role of an assisted structured reflection on ultimate life goals to improve patients' quality of life and spiritual well being. The intervention is brief and based on concepts and skills that spiritual counselors are familiar with, it can be easily implemented in routine patient care and incorporated in guidelines on spiritual care.
Visão geral do estudo
Tipo de estudo
Inscrição (Real)
Estágio
- Não aplicável
Contactos e Locais
Locais de estudo
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Noord-Holland
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Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Holanda
- Academic Medical Center
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Critérios de participação
Critérios de elegibilidade
Idades elegíveis para estudo
Aceita Voluntários Saudáveis
Gêneros Elegíveis para o Estudo
Descrição
Inclusion Criteria:
- Patients ≥ 18 years of age with advanced cancer not amenable to curative treatment.
- Life expectancy ≥ 6 months.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Karnofsky Performance Score < 60.
- Insufficient command of the Dutch language to fill out Dutch questionnaires.
- Current psychiatric disease
Plano de estudo
Como o estudo é projetado?
Detalhes do projeto
- Finalidade Principal: Cuidados de suporte
- Alocação: Randomizado
- Modelo Intervencional: Atribuição Paralela
- Mascaramento: Nenhum (rótulo aberto)
Armas e Intervenções
Grupo de Participantes / Braço |
Intervenção / Tratamento |
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Sem intervenção: Control group
The control group receives care as usual.
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Experimental: Consultations
An intervention of two consultations with a spiritual counselor supported by an e-application.
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The patients receive two consultations with a spiritual counsellor.
In these consultations life evens and life goals are discussed.
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O que o estudo está medindo?
Medidas de resultados primários
Medida de resultado |
Descrição da medida |
Prazo |
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Quality of life
Prazo: 4 months
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The EORTC QLQ C15 is a questionnaire developed to assess the quality of life of palliative cancer care patients.
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4 months
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Spiritual well being
Prazo: 4 months
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FACIT-Sp-12: Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy - Spiritual Well-Being; The 12-item Spiritual Well-Being Scale
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4 months
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Medidas de resultados secundários
Medida de resultado |
Descrição da medida |
Prazo |
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patients empowerment
Prazo: 4 months
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Patient empowerment is becoming more and more important, both from health care professionals' and from patients' perspective.
The patients in the intervention arm of our study will reconstruct a life story and also define their life goals and their intention for the future.
This can lead to a feeling of more empowerment to undertake actions which are important to the patient.
We will assess patients' empowerment with a Dutch version of the Pearlin Mastery Scale developed by Pearlin en Schooler (1978).
The Pearlin Mastery Scale measures the extent to which individuals perceive themselves in control of forces that significantly impact their lives.
It consists of a 7-item scale.
In previous studies, the instrument yielded satisfactory psychometric properties.
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4 months
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spirituality
Prazo: 4 months
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Furthermore, as time patients' view on spirituality can change over time due to the intervention, we will measure spirituality by the Spiritual Attitude en Interests List (SAIL), developed by the Helen Dowling Institute in the Netherlands.
The SAIL is a multidimensional questionnaire for studying spiritual experiences of religious and nonreligious people.
Mean Cronbach's alphas ranged in research from .73 to .86.
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4 months
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Outras medidas de resultado
Medida de resultado |
Descrição da medida |
Prazo |
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anxiety and depression
Prazo: 4 months
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Changes in patients' perspective on satisfaction with life will be measured by the Diener Satisfaction with Life Scale.
Furthermore, asfeelings of anxiety and depression may come up when patients realize the limited amount of time that is left to achieve life goals, feelings of anxiety and depression will be measured by the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale.
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4 months
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patients' health consumption
Prazo: 4 months
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Patients' health consumption is assessed according to a shortened and for this study adjusted version of the Trimbos/iMTA questionnaire for Costs associated with Psychiatric Illness.
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4 months
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patients'satisfaction with the intervention
Prazo: 4 months
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Finally, we will explore patients' satisfaction with the intervention by a telephone interview using a study-specific topic list.
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4 months
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satisfaction with life
Prazo: 4 months
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Changes in patients' perspective on satisfaction with life will be measured by the Diener Satisfaction with Life Scale
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4 months
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Colaboradores e Investigadores
Investigadores
- Investigador principal: Hanneke WM Laarhoven, van, MD, PhD, Acadamic Medical Center
Publicações e links úteis
Publicações Gerais
- Kruizinga R, Scherer-Rath M, Schilderman JB, Hartog ID, Van Der Loos JP, Kotze HP, Westermann AM, Klumpen HJ, Kortekaas F, Grootscholten C, Bossink F, Schrama J, Van De Vrande W, Schrama NA, Blokland W, De Vos FY, Kuin A, Meijer WG, Van Oijen MG, Sprangers MA, Van Laarhoven HW. An assisted structured reflection on life events and life goals in advanced cancer patients: Outcomes of a randomized controlled trial (Life InSight Application (LISA) study). Palliat Med. 2019 Feb;33(2):221-231. doi: 10.1177/0269216318816005. Epub 2018 Dec 5.
- Kruizinga R, Scherer-Rath M, Schilderman JB, Sprangers MA, Van Laarhoven HW. The life in sight application study (LISA): design of a randomized controlled trial to assess the role of an assisted structured reflection on life events and ultimate life goals to improve quality of life of cancer patients. BMC Cancer. 2013 Jul 26;13:360. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-13-360.
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Enviado pela primeira vez que atendeu aos critérios de CQ
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Última atualização enviada que atendeu aos critérios de controle de qualidade
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Outros números de identificação do estudo
- W12-143#12.17.0161
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