Evaluation of Post-traumatic Stress Among the Nearest Relatives of Brain-dead Organ Donors

Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nīmes

Status: Terminated

Conditions: Tissue and Organ Procurement; Tissue Donors; Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic

Treatments: Other: Questionnaires and interview

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01214018

LOCAL/2009/CB-04

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal is to compare post tramautic stress between the nearest relatives of brain-dead patients who are organ donor to those of brain-dead patients who are not organ donors for medical, legal or opposition reasons.

Enrollment: 91 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 16+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• must be one of the following: person-of-trust previously designated by the deceased, a spouse, sibling, parent, or child of the deceased

Exclusion criteria

• refusal to participate
• does not speak French
• deaf/mute
• adult, but under guardianship

Trial design

91 participants in 3 patient groups

Reference

Description:

Nearest relatives of brain-dead patients who donated organs

Treatment:

Other: Questionnaires and interview

Opposition

Description:

Nearest relatives of brain-dead patients opposed to organ donation

Treatment:

Other: Questionnaires and interview

Medical/Legal

Description:

Nearest relatives of brain-dead patients for whom organ donation was not an option because of medical or legal reasons

Treatment:

Other: Questionnaires and interview