The purpose of this study is to assess the incidence and risk factors of prolonged grief in family members of patients died in French palliative care units and to explore experience of bereaved families to build a scientifically valid management prevention program.
There is hardly knowledge on how bereavement is treated in palliative care patient's relatives. The field of bereavement needs studies that validate the theoretical underpinning of the research area. This study will depict the grieving process of individuals having lost a relative in palliative care in France. Having baseline data of incidence of prolonged grief, risk factors of relative's prolonged grief and identification of risk factors associated with the management of end-of-life issues in palliative care will contribute to target interventions that should help decrease bereaved families burden. The investigator designed a quantitative study to assess the psychological effect of families after the death of the patient in palliative care unit and a qualitative study to examine the grieving prolonged process.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
609
French British Institute
Levallois-Perret, France
Incidence of prolonged grief in bereaved family members
Inventory Grief Disorder \> 25
Time frame: 6 months after patient's death in palliative care unit
Risk factors of prolonged grief in bereaved family members
Hierarchical logistic regression models with a random effect center after selection of variables by univariate analysis then introduced in a multivariate analysis
Time frame: 6 months after patient's death in palliative care unit
Post traumatic stress disorder in bereaved family members
Impact of event Scale-revised \> 22
Time frame: 6 months after patient's death in palliative care unit
Anxiety and depression symptoms in bereaved family members
Hospital anxiety and depression scale ≥ 8
Time frame: 6 months after patient's death in palliative care unit
Anxiety and depression symptoms in family members
Hospital anxiety and depression scale ≥ 8
Time frame: Between between day 3 and day 5 after patient admission in the palliative care unit
Report of the families' grief experience in those who have signs of prolonged grief according to the Inventory of Complicated Grief questionnaire with a score > 25
Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis
Time frame: Between 6 and 12 months after the patient' death.
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