Existential Issues in Elderly People With Cancer

NCT ID: NCT01309815

Last Updated: 2013-01-28

Study Results

Results pending

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Total Enrollment

21 participants

Study Classification

OBSERVATIONAL

Study Start Date

2011-02-28

Study Completion Date

2012-06-30

Brief Summary

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The purpose is to describe, interpret and provide a detailed understanding of what it means to be elderly people with cancer who receive treatment in specialized health care. Focus is especially put on the content and expression of existential issues and the importance of spirituality for the patient´s life story and medical story.

Detailed Description

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Existential and spiritual issues in elderly people with cancer are scarcely investigated with respect to the content and importance of these aspects to this patient group in terms of living with their disease and benefit from specialist health treatment and care. The present study is an independent doctoral study that also has an initial function for an intended multidisciplinary research project with the working title "Aged people with cancer".

Conditions

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Cancer

Study Design

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Observational Model Type

COHORT

Study Time Perspective

CROSS_SECTIONAL

Study Groups

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Cancer in elderly people

other

No interventions assigned to this group

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Patients with cancer from the age 70 and older receiving palliative treatment in specialized health care

Exclusion Criteria

* Terminal patients
* Patients considered as too sick for the interview session
* Patients with lack of consent
Minimum Eligible Age

70 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Sykehuset Innlandet HF

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Sigrid Helene Kjørven Haug

PhD Researcher

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Lars J Danbolt, Professor

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Innlandet Hospital Trust, Centre for Psychology of Religion

Locations

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Innlandet Hospital Trust

Brumunddal, , Norway

Site Status

Countries

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Norway

Other Identifiers

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Haug, SKH

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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