Requests for Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide (EPIDESA2)

Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Besancon

Status: Completed

Conditions: Suicide, Assisted

Treatments: Other: Questionnaires completion

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02843776

EPIDESA2

Details and patient eligibility

About

The study epiDESA2 identifies all explicit requests for euthanasia or assisted suicide expressed by the person him/herself, regardless of which professional is asked and regardless of where the request is made (primary care, health institutions, medico-social institutions including nursing home care or at home) in the Burgundy-Franche-Comté region during six months.

Enrollment: 65 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Any adult :

• Living at home, or in medico-social institutions or hospitalized in primary care or health institutions of Burgundy-Franche-Comté,
• At the end of life due to advanced stage disease or a major change in the state of health of an elderly person,
• Who expressed an explicit request for euthanasia or assisted suicide,
• Who expressed their no objection to the collection of their datas,
• Who are covered by the French social security system.

Exclusion criteria

• They are underage
• The request was expressed by another person
• The request is not an explicit request
• The request appears in the context of a situation other than illness or a general change in state of health
• The patient is mentally confused