NCT06456034

Pilot-testing a Perinatal Palliative Care Intervention Program

Testing a Perinatal Palliative Care Intervention Program Within Standard Perinatal Healthcare: Pilot Testing Protocol

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 20 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Vrije Universiteit Brussel · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The objective of this pilot trial is to implement a new perinatal palliative care intervention program tailored to the Flemish context, which aims to provide care to parents who receive a severe foetal/neonatal diagnosis for their (unborn) child and to their healthcare providers. Additionally, we aim to evaluate the feasibility and preliminary effectiveness by comparing measured variables to the baseline measurement done in the same hospital wards beforehand.

Conditions

• Perinatal Palliative Care
• Life-limiting Fetal Diagnosis
• Life-limiting Neonatal Diagnosis

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Perinatal palliative care	Intervention group will receive specialized perinatal palliative care support from moment of severe perinatal diagnosis. This intervention is aimed at 5 major care components, namely 1. Support offered by a fixed perinatal palliative care team, 2. that team has received specialized perinatal palliative care training, 3. care is structured within a new perinatal palliative care approach or pathway, including fixed means of communication with team members, 4. psychological support is structurally being offered to parents and healthcare providers, and 5. debriefings after every perinatal death are being organized in the involved team.

Timeline

• Start date: 2025-05-18
• Primary completion: 2025-12-01
• Completion: 2025-12-01
• First posted: 2024-06-13
• Last updated: 2025-09-22

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: Belgium