NCT05054647

Mental Stress Symptoms in Family Caregivers of Palliative Patients

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 100 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Medical University of Graz · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 90 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Receiving a life-limiting diagnosis is often a shock for those affected as well as for their relatives, which changes the entire life situation of the family. New perspectives often arise, as well as feelings of worry, sadness and powerlessness. Caregiving is often an extreme physical challenge, but above all a psychological one. Aims of the study 1. To investigate whether family caregivers of palliative patients with severe trait anxiety in the care situation also suffer from severe state anxiety. 2. To investigate whether family caregivers of palliative patients with increased stress levels and burnout-promoting work-related behaviour suffer more from burnout symptoms, health-related anxiety and psychosomatic complaints. 3. To investigate the impact of nursing support by a mobile palliative team on family caregivers of palliative patients.

Conditions

• Family Caregivers
• Palliative Patients

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	psychometric questionnaires	Perceived Stress Scale (PSS-10); Trier-Inventory on Chronic Stress; State/Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI); AVEM-Work-related behaviour and experience pattern; Maslach Burn-out Inventory - Human Services Survey (MBI - HSS) health-related anxiety: Whiteley Index (WI)

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-05-01
• Primary completion: 2024-01-01
• Completion: 2024-01-01
• First posted: 2021-09-23
• Last updated: 2023-01-11

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Austria