Impact of a Booklet-Question List on Cancer Patients or Their Families Seeking Prognostic Information During a Palliative Care Consultation (QUEPAL)

Institut Curie

Status: Completed

Conditions: Metastatic Cancer; Palliative Care

Treatments: Other: Booklet-Question List

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02854293

IC 2011-04

Details and patient eligibility

About

Prospective, randomized, multicentre phase III study to evaluate the level and type of information requested by patients or families during a palliative care consultation after they have been given the Booklet-Question List (BQL).

Enrollment: 121 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patient over the age of 18 years,
• Patient who has signed the informed consent form after being given a written information sheet
• Patient followed for metastatic cancer with or without specific treatment, with a limited life expectancy
• Patient referred to the palliative care team.
• French-speaking Patient

Exclusion criteria

• Cognitive disorders
• Documented psychiatric disorders or marked psychological fragility

Trial design

121 participants in 2 patient groups

Booklet-Question List (BQL) group

Description:

76 patients

Treatment:

Other: Booklet-Question List

control group

Description:

Conventional palliative management 76 patients