Nursing Follow up in Geriatric Oncology : Tracking Time of Caregiver Exhaustion Risk (TANGO)

University Hospital, Strasbourg, France

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Exhaustion; Geriatric Disorder

Treatments: Other: Phone nursing follow-up

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02551965

6116

Details and patient eligibility

About

In geriatric oncology, caregivers are submitted to a risk of exhaustion. To investigate the clinical risk factor of exhaustion, the researchers propose to conduct a prospective observational study during 6 months phone follow up of the caregivers. The recruitment will take place during the oncogeriatric assessment consultation.

Full description

The primary purpose aim to describe the caregiver of patient with 70 years old or more, suffered from cancer and for which a treatment is planned, along with their long term evolution.

The secondary purposes are to :

• Assess the exhaustion level felt by this caregiver
• Assess the medium delay of caregiver exhaustion apparition
• Relate factors associated to the medium delay of caregiver exhaustion apparition during patient chemotherapy and/or radiotherapy treatment

Enrollment: 200 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Caregiver of :

  • patient with 70 years old or more, suffered from cancer and receiving specific cancer treatment (chemotherapy or radiotherapy )
  • Patient evaluated in a specific comprehensive oncogeriatric assessment
  • informed patient given a non-opposition form
  • Patient affiliated to a social protection scheme

• Informed consent given by the caregiver

Exclusion criteria

• Patient and caregiver under judicial protection
• Caregiver with understanding difficulties with French language
• Psychological, familial, social or geographic conditions that avoid a good clinical trial continuity
• Patient with ≤ 18 years old
• Caregiver and patient with significant cognitive troubles
• Caregiver and patient located in institution during inclusion period

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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200 participants in 1 patient group

Caregiver of cancer patient followed in geriatric oncology

Experimental group

Description:

caregiver of cancer patient with 70 years old or more, for which a treatment is planned, along with their long term evolution

Treatment:

Other: Phone nursing follow-up