Financial Distress in Patients With Advanced Cancer

NCT01868100 | Completed DMC

• 1 other identifier: 2012.762
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 144
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

Advanced cancer has an adverse effect in virtually all dimensions of patients' lives (physical, psychosocial, spiritual, familial, role function). One of the less frequently explored effects of cancer is its impact on personal finances and the contribution of financial-related distress to overall suffering and quality of life. Financial issues have been recently found to be the second most frequent source of distress identified by cancer patients in a community cancer center context (22%). In the context of continuous increased health care costs, it is likely that the frequency of health care related financial problems will keep rising. The relative contribution of these adverse financial events in advanced cancer patients to overall patient distress is not well assessed and this is particularly true in France. The main objective of this work is to determine the association between financial distress and quality of life of patients with advanced cancer in a Public General Hospital and in a Comprehensive Cancer Center. A secondary objective is to characterize the frequency and intensity of financial distress reported by French cancer patients and their impact on their quality of life.

Conditions

Cancer; Quality of Life

Keywords

Cancer; quality of life; palliative care; supportive care; Financial distress

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Financial distress and quality of life

  FACT-G; FACT-pal; FACT-sp for the quality of life; Self-assessment of financial distress in a 0 to 10 scale(0 no distress; 10 maximal distress)

  Cross sectional (one day)

Study Arms (1)

self-completion questionnaire

NO INTERVENTION

Other: self-completion questionnaire

Interventions

self-completion questionnaire OTHER

self-completion questionnaire

Eligibility Criteria

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

You may qualify if:

• Patients must be at least 18 years old and have a diagnosis of advanced cancer which is defined as one of the following: recurrent disease, received \>2 lines of chemotherapy, locally-advanced disease, metastatic disease, or refractory disease.
• Patients must have a cancer diagnosis of: breast, colon, lung or prostate.
• Patients must be able to understand, read, write, and speak French.

You may not qualify if:

• Clinical evidence of cognitive impairment, as determined by the palliative care physician.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Hospices Civils de Lyon: lead

Study Sites (1)

Unité de soins palliatifs Groupement Hospitalier Sud

Pierre-Bénite, Pierre Bénite, 69495, France

Location

Related Publications (1)

• Barbaret C, Brosse C, Rhondali W, Ruer M, Monsarrat L, Michaud P, Schott AM, Delgado-Guay M, Bruera E, Sanchez S, Filbet M. Financial distress in patients with advanced cancer. PLoS One. 2017 May 18;12(5):e0176470. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0176470. eCollection 2017.

  PMID: 28545063 RESULT

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Neoplasms

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: NA
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: SUPPORTIVE CARE
• Intervention Model: SINGLE GROUP
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: May 30, 2013
• First Posted: June 4, 2013
• Study Start: March 1, 2013
• Primary Completion: June 1, 2014
• Study Completion: June 1, 2014
• Last Updated: May 28, 2019

Record last verified: 2013-06

Locations

FR (1)