NCT02845817

Requests for Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide

Requests for Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide: a Prospective, Multicenter and Qualitative Study of Their Frequency and Characteristics, of Patients' Motivations and Their Evolution

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 31 (actual)
• Sponsor: Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Besancon · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study take place in the palliative care units of Burgundy-Franche-Comté regions and at the Maison Médicale Jeanne Garnier. The main aim of this project is to analyze and understand the meaning of explicit requests to hasten death (euthanasia and assisted suicide). This involves conducting interviews with patients, carers to whom the request has been expressed and a relative chosen by the patient. This study aims to describe the request over time. This will be done through two series of interviews, one as soon as it is first expressed, then one week later.

Conditions

• Palliative Care
• End of Life
• Euthanasia
• Assisted Suicide
• Qualitative Research

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Qualitative research	Semi-structured interviews

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-09-01
• Primary completion: 2015-06-01
• Completion: 2015-06-01
• First posted: 2016-07-27
• Last updated: 2016-07-27

Locations

1 site across 1 country: France