Palliative Care in Maternity and Neonatology (VESPAN)

University Hospital, Lille

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Neonatal Critical Care

Treatments: Other: Questionnaire; Other: Semi-structured interviews; Other: following Scales

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04619901

2017_14

2018-A01226-49 (Other Identifier)

Details and patient eligibility

About

Palliative care is now an accepted principle in most maternity and neonatology wards, however not much is known about its psychological and social consequences on families. Some children continue their life after a palliative care decision has been taken. In France, quality of life and the neuro-developmental evolution of newborns who continue their life after a palliative care decision has been taken, have never been studied.

Enrollment: 34 estimated patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Father and/or Mother of a child, who is alive or not, for whom a decision of palliative care has been made in the neonatal period
• Under the care of one of the Level 3 Maternity Centers in the North and Pas-de-Calais departments (Arras, Lens, Lille, Valenciennes) since 2018
• Written consent of the two legal guardians of the child allowing the collection of data concerning the child
• Written consent of the parent(s) participating to this study by completing the parental questionnaires

Exclusion criteria

• Medico-legal complaint underway
• Parents who do not understand French
• Parents or children who are under legal protection (guardianship, curatorship)
• Parents or children who are not Social Security beneficiaries

Trial design

34 participants in 2 patient groups

Parents only

Treatment:

Other: Questionnaire

Other: Semi-structured interviews

Other: following Scales

Children and Parents

Treatment:

Other: Questionnaire