NCT00553046

Last 3 Months of Life in Home Ventilated Patients

Italian Multicenter Survey on the Last 3 Months of Life in Patients Ventilated at Home

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 180 (actual)
• Sponsor: Fondazione Salvatore Maugeri · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 80 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

To verify with a specific questionnaire, the families' perceived quality of end-of-life care and of dying in the last 3 months of life of 168 patients (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease-Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)-Restrictive disorders-Neuromuscular disease- others) with chronic respiratory failure needing domiciliary mechanical ventilation (MV).

Detailed description

Participants: 168 patients' relatives presenting five categories of diseases (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease-Amyothrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)-Restrictive disorders-Neuromuscular disease- others) answered to questionnaire. Interventions: none Measurements and Main Results: 35 questions grouped in 6 specific domains (Control of pain and symptoms (domain 1-D1), awareness of disease (D2), family burden (D3), the process of dying (D4), medical troubles including hospitalizations (D5) and technical problems linked to MV(D6) were asked after the patient's death to a family member by means of a face to face interview. Answers to the binary 35-item questionnaire were distributed into just two clusters per each domain.

Conditions

• Respiratory Failure

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	survey administration	application of a family survey on last 3 months of life for their relatives under HMV

Timeline

• Start date: 2005-01-01
• Primary completion: 2007-01-01
• Completion: 2007-04-01
• First posted: 2007-11-02
• Last updated: 2016-02-04

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Italy