CONDOL01: Evaluation on the Experience of Bereavement, of a Medical Consultation, Proposed by a Letter of CONDOLence to the Patients' Relatives Versus Standard Practice After the Death of the Patient

Institut Paoli-Calmettes

Status

Unknown

Conditions

Caregivers

Treatments

Behavioral: Letter of condolence and post-death medical consultation

Study type

Observational

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT02861625

CONDOL01-IPC 2015-006

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this randomized multicenter study is to evaluate the impact in offering the condolence letter to the family caregivers (indicated as the reliable person by the patient himself at each hospitalization) and a bereavement consultation with the reference physician.

Full description

The hypothesis is that offering the opportunity to clarify questions about the patients' terminal care will influence positively the grieving process. In particular, the study team hypothesized that psychological morbidity will be reduced (main objective) as well as some aspects of QOL (secondary objective). It is also assumed that the situations of conflict (solicitations for medical records, number of legal procedures) will be reduced.

Enrollment

432 estimated patients

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Patient died in the institution
Patient for which the reliable person has been identified
Acceptation of the reference physician to send a letter of condolence with the proposed consultation

Exclusion criteria