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Incurable Ill Patients Attitudes Towards Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide

NCT ID: NCT00495482

Last Updated: 2012-11-14

Study Results

Results pending

The study team has not published outcome measurements, participant flow, or safety data for this trial yet. Check back later for updates.

Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Total Enrollment

200 participants

Study Classification

OBSERVATIONAL

Study Start Date

2006-09-30

Study Completion Date

2010-01-31

Brief Summary

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Euthanasia and assisted dying are of growing interest for patients with incurable diseases. The possible methods are widely discussed by patient-societies, physicians, lawyers, theologians and philosophers. During the last years several opinion-polls were conducted with healthy people or medical stuff, but no surveys were conducted to get the attitude of incurable ill patients.

The hypothesis of the investigators' study is: "Palliative Care Medicine is a better option for incurable ill patients than an assisted suicide."

Detailed Description

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Conditions

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Incurable Cancer Diseases Other Incurable Diseases

Keywords

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Euthanasia Assisted Suicide Assisted Dying Palliative Care Medicine

Study Design

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Observational Model Type

COHORT

Study Time Perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Study Groups

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1

Patients receiving palliative care due to incurable illness

No interventions assigned to this group

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Age \>= 18 years
* Incurable illness
* Mental state thet allows to answer a questionnaire

Exclusion Criteria

* Somnolence
* Low mental state
* Curable disease
* Depression with danger of acute suicide
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Klinikum St. Georg gGmbH

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Armin Sablotzki, MD

Prof. Dr. med.

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Armin R Sablotzki, MD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Klinikum St. Georg Leipzig, Clinics of Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Therapy

Matthias Thieme, MD

Role: STUDY_DIRECTOR

Klinikum St. Georg Leipzig, Clinics of Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Therapy

Locations

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Klinikum St. Georg gGmbH

Leipzig, Saxony, Germany

Site Status

Countries

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Germany

Related Links

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http://www.sanktgeorg.de

Homepage of the study site

Other Identifiers

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BR-14/06-1

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: secondary_id

BR-14/06-1

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id