Clinical trials: Palliative Care
Anxiety, Pain
Music and VR Effects on Pain, Anxiety, and Fear During Oral Mucositis Care in Leukaemic Children
Children undergoing leukaemia treatment are exposed to a wide range of chemotherapeutic agents and immunosuppressive therapies during treatment and are therefore at great risk for complications.
- Conditions
- Anxiety, Pain, Fear
- Trial name
- NCT06955338
- Testing
- Music intervention, Virtual reality
- Where
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Volunteers
- 45 people
- Sponsor
- Ege University
Palliative Care, Micronutrients
Micronutrient Status in Pediatric Palliative Care
The goal of this observational study is to determine the micronutrient levels in patients in the Pediatric Palliative Care Clinic.
- Conditions
- Palliative Care, Micronutrients, Pediatric
- Trial name
- NCT06146452
- Testing
- Not
- Where
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Volunteers
- 249 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Dr. Behcet Uz Children's Hospital
Burnout Syndrome
Burnout Syndrome in the Intensive Care Unit Before and During a Palliative Care Trial
One hundred ICU doctors, nurses and psychologists from 4 / 8 ICUs of the Greek group of the 28 European units participating in the EPIC stepped-wedge trial (ClinicalTrials.gov NCT06605079) will each complete the same four-part…
- Trial name
- BURNOUT-EPIC (NCT07069010)
- Where
- Greece
- Volunteers
- 100 people
- Sponsor
- University of Athens
Palliative Care, Deep Sedations
Prevalence of Deep Sedation in Terminal Palliative Phase
This nation-wide, multicentric, prospective and cross-sectional study aims to estimate the prevalence of deep sedations (i.e. with a -4 or -5 score at the Richmond scale at the induction time) for patients in terminal phase and…
- Trial name
- PREVAL-S2P (NCT04333719)
- Testing
- Type of sedations
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 183 people
- Sponsor
- University Hospital, Bordeaux
Palliative Care, Chronic Disease
Teaching Parents Reiki for Their Adolescents Receiving Palliative Care
The proposed study addresses National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) priorities of advancing symptom science to "develop [and] test … novel, scalable symptom management interventions, including complementary health…
- Trial name
- NCT03896165
- Testing
- Reiki
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 24 people
- Sponsor
- Ohio State University
Palliative Care
Feasibility Testing of the Quality-monitoring Tool, Qdact, for the Palliative Care Research Cooperative
Few formal mechanisms for collecting, analyzing, and reporting data on quality in palliative care exist. Such infrastructure is needed to understand current clinical practices, inform quality improvement projects, and research…
- Trial name
- QFT (NCT02411305)
- Where
- 5 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 40 people
- Sponsor
- Duke University
Demoralization
Demoralization Among Palliative Care Patients and Their Family Caregivers in Hong Kong: A Pilot Study
This study aims to explore the prevalence of demoralization among palliative care patients and family caregivers in Hong Kong and examines psychosocial factors associated with demoralization.
- Trial name
- NCT04006327
- Testing
- No intervention will be provided as this study is a cross-sectional observational study.
- Where
- Hong Kong
- Volunteers
- 147 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Chinese University of Hong Kong
Dementia
AI4HOPE Pilot Study 1 Digital Toolkit Assessment
The pilot study will develop and test a standardized assessment toolkit that will provide conclusive information with a tolerable burden for cognitively impaired patients with dementia.
- Trial name
- AI4HOPE1 (NCT06289322)
- Testing
- Digital toolkit for assessment
- Volunteers
- 150 people
- Sponsor
- University of Bonn
Cancer
FAmily CEntered (FACE) Advance Care Planning for Teens With Cancer
Advance Care Planning (ACP) prepares patients and their loved ones for future health care decisions, including end-of-life decisions.
- Trial name
- FACE (NCT01670461)
- Testing
- FACE, Standard of Care (SOC) Control
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 60 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Maureen Lyon
Palliative Care
Decision Making With Bioethical Perspective in Palliative Care en Mexico
All clinical practice includes decision making, and sometimes you are ethically challenging because of the consequences it will bring to the patient, the health professional or society in general.
- Trial name
- NCT03913390
- Where
- Mexico
- Volunteers
- 72 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Guadalajara
Metastases, Metastatic Cancer
Trial Comparing LATTICE Radiotherapy vs Moderately Dose-escalated Palliative Radiation for Patients With Metastases.
Unblinded, randomized study of 5-fraction LATTICE radiotherapy (20 Gy with an SIB to 66.7 Gy in 5 fractions) versus moderately dose-escalated palliative radiation (25 Gy in 5 fractions)
- Trial name
- NCT07594431
- Testing
- LATTICE Radiotherapy, Standard radiotherapy
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 80 people
- Sponsor
- Stanford University
Palliative Care
Complex Decisions Regarding Antithrombotic Therapy: the QUIET Study
"Complex decisions regarding antithrombotic therapy: the QUIET study" is a monocentric observational study without drug intervention, conducted through the administration of a questionnaire (survey).The aim of this study is to…
- Trial name
- QUIET (NCT07486154)
- Where
- Italy
- Volunteers
- 300 people
- Sponsor
- Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS
Palliative Care
Contextualizing Care for Patients With a Serious Illness
When people become seriously ill, healthcare decisions are influenced not only by their medical condition, but also by their personal situation, values, wishes, and daily life circumstances.
- Trial name
- SVPII-TRAIN (NCT07764263)
- Testing
- Contextualized Care Communication Training
- Where
- Netherlands
- Volunteers
- 81 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Radboud University Medical Center
Palliative Therapy, Implementation Science
Clinical Surveillance Tool to Screen for Unmet Palliative Needs Among Patients in the Final Year of Life
One of the most important obstacles to improving end-of-life care is the inability of clinicians to reliably identify those who are approaching the end-of-life.
- Conditions
- Palliative Therapy, Implementation Science, Screening, Terminal Care
- Trial name
- HOMR (NCT04171830)
- Testing
- modified Hospital One-year Mortality Risk (mHOMR)
- Where
- 13 sites in Canada
- Volunteers
- 3,536 people
- Sponsor
- Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
Nutrition Disorders, Gastrostomy
A Retrospective Analysis of Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy Experiences
The application of PEG in geriatric-palliative care has not been well discussed. With the development of endoscopic procedures and PEG devices, we can perform this minimally invasive method more safely, even in challenging cases.
- Trial name
- NCT05075616
- Testing
- Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy
- Where
- 2 sites in Turkey (Türkiye)
- Volunteers
- 52 people
- Sponsor
- Okan University
Cancer
Trial of Family Focused Grief Therapy in Palliative Care and Bereavement
The purpose of this study is to learn how well family therapy works if given while a family member is being treated for a serious illness and whether it helps their family to continue meeting for a time after their death.
- Trial name
- NCT00580515
- Testing
- Family Focused Group Therapy, Standard of Care
- Where
- 3 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 700 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Congenital Disorders
Hypoxemia in Infants After Palliative Surgery
Congenital heart disease is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in infants. Many cardiac defects require surgical palliation or repair in the newborn period.
- Trial name
- NCT00327977
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 375 people
- Sponsor
- Children's Healthcare of Atlanta
Cystic Fibrosis, Quality of Life
Pragmatic Implementation Trial of a CF Primary Palliative Care Intervention
Five Cystic Fibrosis (CF) centers, key stakeholders, and a palliative care institute have collaborated to create a novel primary palliative care intervention for patients with CF, "Improving Life with CF: A Primary Palliative…
- Trial name
- NCT04923880
- Testing
- Implementation of Primary Palliative Care Intervention in CF Centers
- Where
- 5 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 643 people
- Sponsor
- Massachusetts General Hospital
Cervical Carcinoma, Ovarian Carcinoma
Palliative Care in Improving Quality of Life in Patients With High Risk Primary or Recurrent Gynecologic Malignancies
This randomized clinical trial studies a palliative care program in improving the quality of life of patients with high-risk gynecologic malignancies that is original or first tumor in the body (primary) or has come back…
- Conditions
- Cervical Carcinoma, Ovarian Carcinoma, Primary Peritoneal Carcinoma, Recurrent Cervical Carcinoma
- Trial name
- NCT02578888
- Testing
- Palliative Therapy, Palliative Therapy + idiographic
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 95 people
- Sponsor
- Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Palliative Care, Wearable Electronic Devices
Wearable and Patient-reported Outcome-based Continuous Assessment and Support Alerts in Palliative Care
Non-professional carers (typically family members) play a critical role in providing adequate home care. This research explores the use of wearable sensors (WS) and electronic patient-reported outcome (ePRO) surveys to monitor…
- Conditions
- Palliative Care, Wearable Electronic Devices, Patient Reported Outcome Measures, Cancer
- Trial name
- wePRO-CASA (NCT05273580)
- Testing
- Garmin VivoSmart 4, mema - ilumivu
- Where
- Australia
- Volunteers
- 30 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Royal North Shore Hospital