Assessement of Capacity to Consent

University Hospital Center (CHU)

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Major Depressive Episode

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04740463

RECHMPL21_0033

Details and patient eligibility

About

Any patient can request euthanasia in many of our neighbouring European countries as long as informed consent is given. Psychiatric evaluation is not always mandatory.

Faced with the increasing emergence of euthanasia requests in different countries from patients under psychiatric care in France for severe depressive episodes, question arises of a possible alteration in the capacity to give consent in the context of a severe depressive episode.

This is a Social and Human Sciences study which does not aim to modify the usual management of patients.

Enrollment: 70 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 75 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age between 18 and 75
• Ability to understand and participate in the interview
• French-speaking
• Presence of a current characterized depressive episode according to DSM-5 diagnostic criteria

Exclusion criteria

• Refusal to participate