Perceptions and Representations of Cancer Chemotherapy (chemotherapy)

University Hospital Center (CHU)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Lung Cancer

Treatments: Other: semi-structured interview conducted by a psychiatrist specialized in psycho-oncology; Other: semi-structured interview conducted by a clinical psychologist

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02851160

RECHMPL16_0208

Details and patient eligibility

About

Qualitative study on data from interviews such patients, relatives and doctors involved in the implementation of cancer care. Framework type of method using grounded theory

Full description

The word chemotherapy itself, because it belongs to the secular knowledge and therefore Doxa is a hard word, which stores what it is stable, common and therefore impersonal. It has the properties of a symbol, that is to say that joint several meanings, some of which are contradictory.

The objective of the research:

To determine the perceptions and representations of chemotherapy, its physical impacts, psychological and relational.

To qualitatively compare the performances of chemotherapy as it has an end as scheduled for adjuvant chemotherapy, or endless precise as in the palliative chemotherapy

Enrollment: 75 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 100 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 30 major Patients with lung cancer requiring chemotherapy either as palliative or adjuvant as surgical treatment
• 30 significant others (relatives) major applicant lung cancer patients chemotherapy either palliation or as adjuvant to surgery
• 15 Doctors oncologists performing either chemotherapy as palliative or adjuvant as surgical treatment

Exclusion criteria

• NA

Trial design

75 participants in 3 patient groups

Patients requiring lung cancer chemotherapy

Description:

30 major Patients with lung cancer requiring chemotherapy either as palliative or adjuvant as surgical treatment having a semi-structured interview conducted by a clinical psychologist

Treatment:

Other: semi-structured interview conducted by a clinical psychologist

Family of lung cancer patients receiving chemotherapy

Description:

30 Family of lung cancer patients receiving chemotherapy having a semi-structured interview conducted by a clinical psychologist

Treatment:

Other: semi-structured interview conducted by a clinical psychologist

doctors caring for lung cancer patients receiving chemotherapy

Description:

15 doctors caring for lung cancer patients receiving chemotherapy 15 have a semi-structured interview conducted by a psychiatrist specialized in psycho-oncology

Treatment:

Other: semi-structured interview conducted by a psychiatrist specialized in psycho-oncology