Comparison Between the Assessment of Anxious and Depressive Symptomology (EDAPAL)

Civil Hospices of Lyon

Status: Completed

Conditions: End Stage Disease

Treatments: Other: Medical staff questionnaire; Other: Questionnaire

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04148924

69HCL19_0301

Details and patient eligibility

About

In palliative care, anxiety and depression in advanced cancer are under evaluated, under diagnosed and therefore under treated. 5 to 30% of patients present anxious and depressive disorders.

Physical symptoms are easy to assess. But in palliative care it is important to take care of moral suffering.

However, evaluation and management of patient's anxiety and depressive symptoms are difficult for physicians and caregivers.

The investigators would like to specifically compare the patient's evaluation of anxious and depressive symptomatology in palliative care with the evaluation by the physician, the nurse and the caregiver.

Then the investigators will try to collect the caregivers's difficulties in the management of anxious and depressive symptoms.

Enrollment: 100 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Patients :

• Adult patients (18 years and over)
• Advanced cancer stage
• Patients hospitalized less than 72 hours in Lyon Sud palliative care unit
• Sufficient general conditions to complete survey
• Absence of cognitive disorders
• Agreement to participate at the study

Medical Staff:

• Working full time or part time in the USP or the PMSC of CHLS

Exclusion criteria

Patients :

• Minor patients
• Patients hospitalized more than 72 hours in Lyon Sud palliative care unit
• Presence of cognitive disorders
• Alteration of general conditions
• Refusal to participate at the study

Trial design

100 participants in 4 patient groups

Patients

Description:

Anyone who is hospitalized in the palliative care service of the Lyon Sud Hospital Center.

Treatment:

Other: Questionnaire

Doctors

Description:

Doctors taking care of patients in the study will be solicited by the research nurse or a study investigator.

Treatment:

Other: Medical staff questionnaire

Nurses

Description:

Nurses taking care of patients in the study will be solicited by the research nurse or a study investigator.

Treatment:

Other: Medical staff questionnaire

Caregivers

Description:

Caregivers taking care of patients in the study will be solicited by the research nurse or a study investigator.

Treatment:

Other: Medical staff questionnaire