Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT01309815
Existential Issues in Elderly People With Cancer
Existential Issues in Elderly People With Cancer in an Early Palliative Phase- a Phenomenological Hermeneutic Approach
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- —
- Study type
- Observational
- Enrollment
- 21 (actual)
- Sponsor
- Sykehuset Innlandet HF · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 70 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
Summary
The purpose is to describe, interpret and provide a detailed understanding of what it means to be elderly people with cancer who receive treatment in specialized health care. Focus is especially put on the content and expression of existential issues and the importance of spirituality for the patient´s life story and medical story.
Detailed description
Existential and spiritual issues in elderly people with cancer are scarcely investigated with respect to the content and importance of these aspects to this patient group in terms of living with their disease and benefit from specialist health treatment and care. The present study is an independent doctoral study that also has an initial function for an intended multidisciplinary research project with the working title "Aged people with cancer".
Conditions
Timeline
- Start date
- 2011-02-01
- Primary completion
- 2012-06-01
- Completion
- 2012-06-01
- First posted
- 2011-03-07
- Last updated
- 2013-01-28
Locations
1 site across 1 country: Norway
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT01309815. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.