NCT03260946

The Use of Alternative Medicine by Palliative Care Patients

The Use of Complementary Medicine in Palliative/Supportive Care Centres in Lyon, France

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 120 (actual)
• Sponsor: Hospices Civils de Lyon · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Palliative care centres in Lyon, France as well as the disclosure of Complementary and Alternative Medicine and conventional healthcare use to conventional and Complementary and Alternative Medicine practitioners respectively. These aims will be achieved through the following objectives: 1. Describe the prevalence of Complementary and Alternative Medicine practitioner and product use in the outpatient population of palliative care centres in Lyon, France 2. Describe the characteristics of Complementary and Alternative Medicine users the outpatient population of palliative care centres in Lyon, France 3. Estimate the Complementary and Alternative Medicine expenditure of the outpatient population of palliative care centres in Lyon, France 4. Describe the rates of disclosure of both Complementary and Alternative Medicine and conventional health care to health professionals by the outpatient population of palliative care centres in Lyon, France 5. Describe the reasons for disclosure or non-disclosure of both Complementary and Alternative Medicine and conventional health care to health professionals by the outpatient population of palliative care centres in Lyon, France

Conditions

• Cancer
• Terminal Cancer

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Complementary medicine use	The prevalence of complementary medicine use

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-07-11
• Primary completion: 2018-05-03
• Completion: 2018-05-03
• First posted: 2017-08-24
• Last updated: 2018-09-24

Locations

3 sites across 1 country: France