Quality of Life and Cancers in Nursing Homes (QUALICE)

Caen University Hospital

Status: Terminated

Conditions: Quality of Life; Cancer; Nurse's Role

Treatments: Diagnostic Test: quality of life and pain measurement .

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03343210

QUALICE 16-180

Details and patient eligibility

About

Quality of life (QOL) of nursing homes residents with cancer in France is not known. High prevalence of neurodegenerative diseases makes it difficult. It was found that oncological management is suboptimal among Poitevin territory residents. Publications report an inadequate management of symptoms of discomfort related to cancers.

The multicentric study will comparate quality of life in patients with and without Cancers in nursing homes, including residents with neurodegenerative disease, using validated questionnaires. These questionnaires, as well as pain evaluation, will be carried out by a geriatric consultations' nurse.

Full description

Investigators will also make a descriptive inventory of the oncological care and support care in these patients, in order to evaluate the need for a specific oncogeriatric intervention.

Quality of life and pain will be compared with a randomized residents control group, in each hospital.

Enrollment: 73 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 70+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Affiliated to the social security system
• talking french language
• Cancer group: All residents with a history of cancer,
• Control group: residents without any history of cancer (same number of residents as in the cancer group), randomly selected in each nursing home, matched to age, sex, presence of dementia (mild or Moderate), and AGGIR dependancy scale

Exclusion criteria

• Severe dementia (MMS <10/30) • Total disability to communicate

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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73 participants in 2 patient groups

cancer patient

Experimental group

Description:

cancer patient

Treatment:

Diagnostic Test: quality of life and pain measurement .

no cancer patient

Active Comparator group

Description:

no cancer patient

Treatment:

Diagnostic Test: quality of life and pain measurement .