Pilot Study of Living With Hope Program

NCT01697982 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: Pro00033340
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 19
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

Hope is important to palliative home care patients. Our research team has developed a Living with Hope Program that has been found to increase hope and quality of life in older persons with advanced cancer. The investigators want to know if this program increases hope and quality of life for all palliative home care patients (all ages, all diagnosis). Thirty palliative home care patients and their care partners will participate in this pilot study to evaluate the study procedures and the living with hope program.

Conditions

Quality of Life

Keywords

pilot study; psychosocial intervention; advanced cancer

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• McGill Quality of Life Questionnaire

  McGill Quality of Life Questionnaire: The MQOL is a 16 numerical rating scale designed to measure subjective well-being in palliative care patients. It is comprised of five sub measures: physical symptoms, physical well-being, psychological well-being, existential well-being and support. The scores reflect subjective well-being in each domain as well as a total quality of life score that is a mean score of the 5 sub-measures. The total scores range from 0-10 where the higher the scores indicate a higher the quality of life. The MQOL takes approximately 10 minutes to complete. There are no ceiling or basement effects. The MQOL has been found to be a reliable (r=.9) and valid measure of quality of life in palliative care patients.

  Change from baseline in quality of life at Day 7

Secondary Outcomes (1)

• Herth Hope Index

  Change from Baseline in hope at day 7

Other Outcomes (1)

• Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS)

  Change from Baseline in HADS on day 7

Study Arms (3)

Living with Hope Program

EXPERIMENTAL

Participants will receive the Living with Hope Program (LWHP). The LWHP involves viewing a short film and choose to begin one of three hope activities: a) Write or ask someone to help you write one or more letters to someone begin to write a letter to someone, b) Begin a Hope Collection or c) begin an "About Me Collection."

Behavioral: Living with Hope Program

LWH Film

EXPERIMENTAL

Participants will viewing a short film entitled Living with Hope (LWH), which is based on the research team's grounded theory study, and shows cases of terminally ill persons and their family members talking about how they maintain their hope

Behavioral: LWH film

Usual Care

NO INTERVENTION

Participants in the usual care group will not receive an intervention. Data collection for outcome variables will be the same as the participants in the other arms.

Interventions

Living with Hope Program BEHAVIORAL

The Living with Hope Program involves viewing a short film entitled Living with Hope, which is based on the research team's grounded theory study, and shows cases of terminally ill persons and their family members talking about how they maintain their hope. Participants then choose to begin one of three hope activities: a) Write or ask someone to help you write one or more letters to someone begin to write a letter to someone, b) Begin a Hope Collection or c) begin an "About Me Collection."

Living with Hope Program

LWH film BEHAVIORAL

Participants will view the Living with Hope film which is based on the research team's grounded theory study, and shows cases of terminally ill persons and their family members talking about how they maintain their hope.

LWH Film

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years+
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• Receiving palliative home care services and able to complete the study as determined by their palliative care coordinator/manager.
• May or may not have an identified care partner.

You may not qualify if:

• Patients who are non-autonomous adults, cognitively impaired as determined by the palliative care coordinator/manager and or unable in the opinion of the palliative care coordinator/manager to participate

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of Alberta: lead

Study Sites (1)

University of Alberta

Edmonton, Alberta, T6M 2X1, Canada

Location

Study Officials

• Wendy Duggleby, PhD

  University of Alberta

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: SUPPORTIVE CARE
• Intervention Model: FACTORIAL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Professor and Nursing Research Chair Aging and Quality of Life

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: September 26, 2012
• First Posted: October 2, 2012
• Study Start: September 1, 2012
• Primary Completion: July 1, 2014
• Study Completion: July 1, 2014
• Last Updated: December 4, 2014

Record last verified: 2014-12

Locations

CA (1)