Impact of a Booklet-Question List on Cancer Patients or Their Families Seeking Prognostic Information During a Palliative Care Consultation

Institut Curie121 enrolled

Overview

Prospective, randomized, multicentre phase III study to evaluate the level and type of information requested by patients or families during a palliative care consultation after they have been given the Booklet-Question List (BQL).

Study Type

OBSERVATIONAL

Enrollment

121

Conditions

Metastatic Cancer Palliative Care

Interventions

Booklet-Question ListOTHER

Booklet-Question List (BQL) proposed in palliative cares, divided into 8 chapters, given to the patient before the first palliative care consultation. Providing a list of questions to patients and their families without any obligations allows individual adaptation of information; patients or families who are afraid of asking these questions can take advantage of this opportunity, while respecting the need to avoid these subjects for other patients

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion criteria: * Patient over the age of 18 years, * Patient who has signed the informed consent form after being given a written information sheet * Patient followed for metastatic cancer with or without specific treatment, with a limited life expectancy * Patient referred to the palliative care team. * French-speaking Patient Exclusion criteria: * Cognitive disorders * Documented psychiatric disorders or marked psychological fragility

Locations (5)

Léon Berard

Lyon, France

Centre Alexis Vautrin

Nancy, France

Institut Curie

Paris, France

Hopital René Huguenin

Saint-Cloud, France

Polyclinique de l'Ormeau

Tarbes, France

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

The number of questions asked or the concerns expressed that elicit a medical comment by the patient or the family during the palliative care consultation.

Time frame: one month

Secondary Outcomes

HADS (Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale) anxiety and depression score

Time frame: one month

QLQC-15Pal palliative quality of life score

The EORTC QLQ-C15-PAL is a questionnaire developed to assess the quality of life of palliative cancer care patients

Time frame: one month

MB coping questionnaire score

The Brief COPE is the abbreviated version of the COPE Inventory and assesses dispositional as well as situational coping efforts . The 28-item Brief COPE (consisting of 14 subscales) has acceptable psychometric properties and has been used extensively to examine the relationship between various coping strategies and psychological outcomes

Time frame: one month

Two 5-point Likert scales on information needs and satisfaction with medical information

Time frame: one month

Specific questionnaire on the Booklet-Question List (mode of use, satisfaction)

Time frame: one month

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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