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Existential Issues in Elderly People With Cancer

S

Sykehuset Innlandet HF

Status

Completed

Conditions

Cancer

Study type

Observational

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT01309815
Haug, SKH

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose is to describe, interpret and provide a detailed understanding of what it means to be elderly people with cancer who receive treatment in specialized health care. Focus is especially put on the content and expression of existential issues and the importance of spirituality for the patient´s life story and medical story.

Full description

Existential and spiritual issues in elderly people with cancer are scarcely investigated with respect to the content and importance of these aspects to this patient group in terms of living with their disease and benefit from specialist health treatment and care. The present study is an independent doctoral study that also has an initial function for an intended multidisciplinary research project with the working title "Aged people with cancer".

Enrollment

21 patients

Sex

All

Ages

70+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • Patients with cancer from the age 70 and older receiving palliative treatment in specialized health care

Exclusion criteria

  • Terminal patients
  • Patients considered as too sick for the interview session
  • Patients with lack of consent

Trial design

21 participants in 1 patient group

Cancer in elderly people
Description:
other

Trial contacts and locations

1

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