Therapeutic Patient Education and Cancer Pain (EFFADOL)

Centre Francois Baclesse

Status: Completed

Conditions: Cancer

Treatments: Other: Questionnaire

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02391740

2014-A00239-38

Details and patient eligibility

About

Describe the expectations of therapeutic education for patients in management of cancer pain.

Enrollment: 75 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patient with cancer diagnosed for at least one month
• Patient with pain from the tumor or its treatment
• Patients with a life expectancy ≥ 6 months
• Health condition compatible with the requirements of the program (WHO performance scale < or= 2)
• Age over 18 years
• Patient able to understand, speak and read French
• Absence of cognitive impairment

Exclusion criteria

• Primary cancer of the central nervous system or brain metastases
• Disorders of the documented higher functions
• Evolutionary psychiatric pathology
• Drug User
• Abusive alcohol consumption than the WHO recommendations (or 3 glasses of wine per day)
• Refusal to participate