NCT02551965

Nursing Follow up in Geriatric Oncology : Tracking Time of Caregiver Exhaustion Risk

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 200 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University Hospital, Strasbourg, France · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

In geriatric oncology, caregivers are submitted to a risk of exhaustion. To investigate the clinical risk factor of exhaustion, the researchers propose to conduct a prospective observational study during 6 months phone follow up of the caregivers. The recruitment will take place during the oncogeriatric assessment consultation.

Detailed description

The primary purpose aim to describe the caregiver of patient with 70 years old or more, suffered from cancer and for which a treatment is planned, along with their long term evolution. The secondary purposes are to : * Assess the exhaustion level felt by this caregiver * Assess the medium delay of caregiver exhaustion apparition * Relate factors associated to the medium delay of caregiver exhaustion apparition during patient chemotherapy and/or radiotherapy treatment

Conditions

• Exhaustion
• Geriatric Disorder

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Phone nursing follow-up	From the day of geriatric cancer patient's consultation, nurses will identify caregiver and will follow them by phone (caregiver) during 6 months

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-01-01
• Primary completion: 2023-04-01
• Completion: 2023-09-01
• First posted: 2015-09-16
• Last updated: 2020-07-28

Locations

1 site across 1 country: France