CompletedNot Applicable

Study of the Life Stories of Patients Making a Request for Euthanasia, in the Context of Advanced Cancer.

France7 participantsStarted 2023-06-01

Plain-language summary

This study wishes to focus on the life course of patients, beyond the moments of suffering experienced at the time of the request for euthanasia. It is based on the perspective that the patient's account of his or her life course can be a source of information for better understanding and accompanying patients requesting euthanasia.

Who can participate

Age range18 Years

SexALL

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Inclusion Criteria: * Major patients * With cancer in the palliative phase, i.e. with an incurable disease according to current knowledge. * Expressing a request for euthanasia in terms evoking a request for death with the intervention of an outside person. * Non-opposition to the study after full written information. Exclusion Criteria: * Severe decompensated psychiatric pathology * Vulnerable persons defined here as pregnant women, parturients and persons under legal protection or unable to express their consent * Inability to conduct an interview

What they're measuring

Description of the life stories of patients requesting euthanasia to explore which life experiences are brought forward when making this request, in a context of advanced oncological pathology.

Timeframe: One month

Trial details

NCT IDNCT05884788

SponsorCentre Leon Berard

Sponsor typeOTHER

Study typeOBSERVATIONAL

Primary completion2024-07-31

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