Incurable Ill Patients Attitudes Towards Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide (ESPIL)

Klinikum St. Georg gGmbH

Status: Completed

Conditions: Incurable Cancer Diseases; Other Incurable Diseases

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00495482

BR-14/06-1

Details and patient eligibility

About

Euthanasia and assisted dying are of growing interest for patients with incurable diseases. The possible methods are widely discussed by patient-societies, physicians, lawyers, theologians and philosophers. During the last years several opinion-polls were conducted with healthy people or medical stuff, but no surveys were conducted to get the attitude of incurable ill patients.

The hypothesis of the investigators' study is: "Palliative Care Medicine is a better option for incurable ill patients than an assisted suicide."

Enrollment: 200 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age >= 18 years
• Incurable illness
• Mental state thet allows to answer a questionnaire

Exclusion criteria

• Somnolence
• Low mental state
• Curable disease
• Depression with danger of acute suicide

Trial design

200 participants in 1 patient group

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Description:

Patients receiving palliative care due to incurable illness