Trials / Terminated

TerminatedNCT03328065

Viewpoints on the Social Representations and Rationale Concerning the Choices of Patients, Doctors and Caregivers With Regard to the Management of Patients With Non-resectable Metastatic Cancer of the Colon, Stomach, Bile Ducts, Rectum, Pancreas or Lung, or Gastrointestinal Neuroendocrine Tumours

Status: Terminated
Phase: —
Study type: Observational
Enrollment: 36 (actual)

Sponsor: Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Dijon · Academic / Other
Sex: All
Age: —
Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Reflexion on the therapeutic strategies to implement in patients at the end of life is advancing rapidly in France. However, beyond the choices presented to patients, sometimes even the decision to carry on, to limit or to stop treatments is also questioned. This decision is subjective; it is influenced by the patient's representation system (emotions, beliefs, values, practices, etc). In addition, even though he or she is the focus of the decision, the patient is not alone; other actors, accompanying the patient, play an important role in the final decision making. These actors, namely the doctors and close relatives, are also influenced in their decision making. This coexistence of representation systems may interfere with objective indicators that help in decision making (functional, clinical and biological) or with the knowledge acquired by doctors in their training and may complicate the decision-making process.

Conditions

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Interviews	Semi-directed interviews, recorded and transcribed for analysis
OTHER	Questionnaires	economic and psycho-social questionnaires

Timeline

Start date: 2017-12-19
Primary completion: 2020-12-09
Completion: 2020-12-19
First posted: 2017-11-01
Last updated: 2022-04-21

Locations

1 site across 1 country: France

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT03328065. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.