Spirituality, Experience of Disease and Quality of Life in Cancer Patients

NCT ID: NCT03245983

Last Updated: 2022-08-09

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 162 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2017-02-06
• Study Completion Date: 2020-02-19

Brief Summary

The general aim of research is to identify and analyze the impact and role of spirituality (as a search for meaning and understanding of the meaning of existence) in the experience of cancer. For this purpose, the main objective of this study is to measure the "existential" component in the trajectory of the disease. It is a question of observing its potential contribution to the improvement of the quality of life of the patients and to define if this variable can be translated into a strategy of adjustment for the patients. This research has a double interest: (a) clinical interest in better managing patients' needs; (B) an interest in research in the field of health by combining a measure of spirituality with other psycho-social variables.

The project is a prospective non-randomized mono-centric study by questionnaire and research interview. It is a study that seeks to identify the role of spirituality in the experience of illness (i.e. representations, adjustments, emotional distress) and as a determinant of the quality of life of subjects with cancer pathology.

The interviews will be conducted by a psychologist to qualitatively collect the elements of the lived experience of the disease in connection with the spiritual elements of the "quest for meaning" type.

The population covered by the project is in and out patients coming to the Department of Medical Oncology and Palliative Care at the CHU de la Timone.

The realization of this project will allow investigators to explore the specificity of the existential / spiritual dimensions of patients confronted with cancer, to assess the patients' needs for this type of approach within the hospital, to link the existential component / Spiritual with psycho-social variables

Conditions

Psychology and Cancer

Study Design

• Allocation Method: NA
• Intervention Model: SINGLE_GROUP
• Primary Study Purpose: SUPPORTIVE_CARE
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

Patient willing to participate

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Questionnaire and interview

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Cancer patients will answer questionnaires and will be interviewed by a pshychologist to assess their spirituality and quality of life toward their disease

Interventions

Questionnaire and interview

Cancer patients will answer questionnaires and will be interviewed by a pshychologist to assess their spirituality and quality of life toward their disease

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• patient undergoing chemotherapy

Exclusion Criteria

• patient presenting psychiatric or neurological disorders

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 85 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Assistance Publique Hopitaux De Marseille

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

Urielle DESALBRES

Role: STUDY_DIRECTOR

Assistance Publique -Hôpitaux de Marseille

Locations

Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Marseille

Marseille, , France

Countries

France

Other Identifiers

2016-32

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id