Intervention Toward Truth-Telling and Advanced Directives in the Patient With Advanced or Metastatic Disease

National Taiwan University

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Metastatic Cancer; Advanced Cancer

Treatments: Behavioral: family conference

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00792896

200803051R

Details and patient eligibility

About

Family usually had a lot of burden to tell the truth to patients. The purpose of this study is to assess the effect of education materials and family conference for advanced cancer patients and family.

Enrollment: 150 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• advanced or metastatic cancer patients
• more than 20 years old
• clear consciousness and be able to communicate

Exclusion criteria

• refuse to know the statement of himself/herself disease

Trial design

150 participants in 2 patient groups

1

Experimental group

Description:

Family conference + education materials

Treatment:

Behavioral: family conference

2

No Intervention group

Description:

education materials