Therapeutic Support to Strengthen Dignity, Mental Well-being and Quality of Life in Acute Palliative Care Patients.

NCT06549075 | Not Yet Recruiting

• 1 other identifier: 2024-01301
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 40
• Locations: 0 countries
• Sites: N/A

Brief Summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to test the benefit of a newly designed personalized therapeutic intervention compared to the standard specialized palliative care service at the swiss acute palliative hospital care.The main questions it aims to answer are: Does an additional therapeutic support that fits the individual needs of a palliative care patient increases dignity and mental well-being as measures by a questionnaire (Patient Dignity Inventory) to a larger extent than standard palliative care alone? Is the additional therapeutic support perceived as helpful? Researchers will compare the additional therapeutic support with standard palliative care to standard palliative care alone. Participants will: Receive additional therapeutic support in two structured sessions a 60 minutes and/or standard palliative care Fill out questionnaires before and after therapeutic interventions and standard palliative care Provide a semi-structured interview following the therapeutic support

Conditions

Promoting Dignity, Meaningfulness and Mindfulness in Acute Palliative Care

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Patient Dignity Inventory

  Questionnaire (Self-reported outcome)

  Baseline, after intervention, 4 week follow-up

Study Arms (2)

Personnalized modular therapeutic support

EXPERIMENTAL

Other: Therapeutic support; Other: Standard Specialized Palliative Consultation Service

Standard Specialized Palliative Consultation Service

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

Other: Standard Specialized Palliative Consultation Service

Interventions

Therapeutic support OTHER

The modular intervention consists of three modules, including Dignity Therapy, CALM Therapy and Mindfulness-based training. According to the patient's preferences, the patient will be allocated to one of the three interventions, which will be conducted by trained therapists within two sessions.

Also known as: personnalized modular therapeutic support

Personnalized modular therapeutic support

Standard Specialized Palliative Consultation Service OTHER

According to needs standard specialized palliative care will include support of symptom control, shared decision making/ advance care planning, network planning and support of relatives.

Personnalized modular therapeutic support; Standard Specialized Palliative Consultation Service

Eligibility Criteria

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

You may qualify if:

• Informed Consent
• Patients seen by the palliative consultation-liaison service at the University Hospital Basel as an in- or outpatient
• Suffering from a life-limiting serious illness (≤ 18 months)
• ≥ 18 years of age
• Willingness and capacity to commit to three study visits

You may not qualify if:

• Delirious (ICD-10: F05.9)
• Inability to give consent (lack of decisional capacity to consent)
• Inability to follow the procedures of the study due to psychological disorders, dementia, or other cognitively impairment of the participant,
• Too ill to complete the requirements of the protocol
• Unable to understand, speak and read German

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland: lead

MeSH Terms

Interventions

Self-Help Groups

Intervention Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Organizations; Health Care Economics and Organizations

Study Design

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

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: August 8, 2024
• First Posted: August 12, 2024
• Study Start: September 10, 2024
• Primary Completion: February 28, 2025
• Study Completion: April 30, 2025
• Last Updated: August 12, 2024

Record last verified: 2024-08