Sense of Security With Access to Palliative Outpatient Clinic

NCT06393569 | Recruiting

• 1 other identifier: 2023-02274-01
• Study Type: observational
• Target: 200
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

The aim of the study is to evaluate experience of security, accessibility, and avoidable utilization of health care services in patients who have had access to specialized palliative care clinic (SPCC) compared to those who have not, and to evaluate the relatives' experience of the care.

Conditions

Cancer

Keywords

Palliative care

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Experience of security and continuity

  Likert scale, 5-point scale where a higher value indicates higher sense of security and continuity.

  3 months

Secondary Outcomes (2)

• Avoidable care consumption

  3 months

• Readmissions to hospital.

  3 months

Study Arms (1)

Access to Specialized palliative outpatient clinic

Patients who have had access to specialized palliative outpatient clinic before admitted to ASiH

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years - 120 Years
• Sex: all
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)
• Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

Patients who have hade access to specialized palliative outpatient clinic. As a control group patients who not have had contact with specialized palliative outpatient clinic woill be included. Patients with all kind of diagnoses and symtoms that require care at ASiH and specialized palliative outpatient clinic can be included.

You may qualify if:

• \- Patients admitted to included ASiH-unit

You may not qualify if:

• Patients with cognitive impairment
• Patients who cannot fill in a questionnaire in Swedish, Arabic or Serbo-Croatian.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Region Skane: lead

Study Sites (1)

ASiH och palliativ vård Skåne

Lund, Sweden

RECRUITING

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Neoplasms

Study Officials

• Maria Schelin, ass.prof

  Region Skane

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Central Study Contacts

Sofia Persson, PhD student

CONTACT

+46708652769; sofia.persson@skane.se

Christel Hedman, MD PhD

CONTACT

christel.hedman@ki.se

Study Design

• Study Type: observational
• Observational Model: CASE CONTROL
• Time Perspective: RETROSPECTIVE
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: April 26, 2024
• First Posted: May 1, 2024
• Study Start: March 14, 2024
• Primary Completion (Estimated): March 14, 2028
• Study Completion (Estimated): March 14, 2029
• Last Updated: May 13, 2026

Record last verified: 2026-05

Locations

SE (1)