Clinical trials: Palliative Care, Patient Care
Critical Illness
Feasibility Study on Implementing Consultation-based High-quality Palliative Care Services in Intensive Care Units
Critically ill patients in intensive care units (ICUs) receive life-sustaining treatments aimed at restoring or maintaining organ function.
- Trial name
- NCT06490835
- Testing
- High-quality palliative care through consultation-based palliative care services in the ICU
- Where
- South Korea
- Volunteers
- 20 people
- Sponsor
- Seoul National University Hospital
Pecha Kuka, Palliative Care
Pecha Kuka Method About Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy for Caregivers Who Care for Palliative Care Patients
Palliative care; It was started by Dame Cicely Saunders in the 1960s as a hospice for community-based provision. Today, palliative care is defined as care that begins with the patient's diagnosis, symptom management is carried…
- Trial name
- NCT06339723
- Testing
- Pecha Kucha
- Where
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Volunteers
- 60 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Firat University
Cancer
Specialized Palliative Telemedicine for Patients with Advanced Cancer
Specialized palliative care (SPC) plays an important role in providing patient-centered care and support to informal caregiver, besides establishing/intensifying/coordinating collaboration with primary and secondary health care…
- Trial name
- TeleSPC (NCT05231070)
- Testing
- TeleSPC
- Where
- Denmark
- Volunteers
- 60 people
- Sponsor
- Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet
End-of-Life, Physical Suffering
Virtual Reality Therapy to Improve Physical and Psychological Symptoms and Quality of Life for End-of-life Patients on a Palliative Care Unit
People with advanced and life-threatening illnesses experience challenges across multiple domains of function including physical, psychological, social, and spiritual.
- Conditions
- End-of-Life, Physical Suffering, Psychological Distress
- Trial name
- NCT04966260
- Testing
- Standardized Virtual Reality, Control, Personalized Virtual Reality
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 63 people
- Sponsor
- Baycrest
Congestive Heart Failure, Ischemic Cardiomyopathy
Feasibility and Effectiveness of Micronutrients as Palliative Care Therapy in Patients With Congestive Heart Failure
The purpose of this project is to conduct a preliminary test of the feasibility of a multi-micronutrient intervention to improve micronutrient status, cardiac function and quality of life in Veterans with Congestive Heart Failure…
- Trial name
- NCT01474486
- Testing
- Micronutrients
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 40 people
- Sponsor
- Phoenix VA Health Care System
Depression
CALM Phase 2b Pilot
Managing Cancer And Living Meaningfully (CALM) is a brief psychotherapy designed to alleviate distress in advanced cancer. In an earlier intervention-only pilot trial, CALM was associated with reductions in depressive symptoms…
- Trial name
- CALM (NCT02353546)
- Testing
- CALM
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 60 people
- Sponsor
- University Health Network, Toronto
Pain, Cancer
Improvement of Self Management for Oncologic Patients With Pain
This study will test the SCION (Self care improvement through oncology nursing)-PAIN program, a multi-modular structured intervention to improve self management in oncologic patients with pain compared to care as usual (standard…
- Trial name
- NCT00779597
- Testing
- SCION (Self care improvement through oncology nursing)-PAIN program
- Where
- 3 sites in Germany
- Volunteers
- 208 people
- Sponsor
- Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
Cancer, Pain With Neuropathic Component
Efficacy of Lidocaine Versus Placebo in Palliative Care Patients With Opioid-refractory Cancer Pain With Neuropathic Component: a Multicenter, Prospective, Double-blind Randomized Placebo-controlled Study.
This is a multicenter, prospective, randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind, two-parallel groups study comparing lidocaine (experimental group) to placebo (control group).
- Trial name
- LIDOSP (NCT02137954)
- Testing
- Lidocaine
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 200 people
- Sponsor
- Assistance Publique Hopitaux De Marseille
Sleep, Insomnia
Pharmacological Treatment of Insomnia in Palliative Care
Sleep disturbance is frequent in patients with advanced cancer and decreases the tolerability of other symptoms and impairs quality of life.
- Trial name
- NCT02807922
- Testing
- Zopiclone
- Where
- 5 sites in Norway
- Volunteers
- 43 people
- Sponsor
- St. Olavs Hospital
Lung Cancer
Supportive Care for Patients Newly Diagnosed With Lung Cancer
The aims of this project are to assess the feasibility of recruiting patients and delivering a nurse-led telephone based palliative care intervention for patients with newly diagnosed lung cancer and to assess if among patients…
- Trial name
- NCT01883986
- Testing
- Palliative Care
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 41 people
- Sponsor
- VA Office of Research and Development
Gastrointestinal Cancer
Perioperative Palliative Care Surrounding Cancer Surgery for Patients & Their Family Members
The study goal is to compare surgeon-palliative care team co-management, versus surgeon alone management, of patients and family members preparing for major upper gastrointestinal cancer surgery.
- Trial name
- PERIOP-PC (NCT03611309)
- Testing
- Surgeon-palliative care team co management, Surgeon team alone management
- Where
- 5 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 379 people
- Sponsor
- Stanford University
Squamous Cell Carcinoma of Head and Neck
Prognostic Counselling in Palliative Head and Neck Cancer (ProCoPall)
The investigators test the effect of providing individualized prognostic information on life-expectancy to head and neck cancer patients in the palliative phase.
- Trial name
- ProCoPall (NCT06699316)
- Testing
- Individualized prognostic counselling
- Where
- Netherlands
- Volunteers
- 160 people
- Sponsor
- Erasmus Medical Center
End Stage Disease
Comparison Between the Assessment of Anxious and Depressive Symptomology
In palliative care, anxiety and depression in advanced cancer are under evaluated, under diagnosed and therefore under treated. 5 to 30% of patients present anxious and depressive disorders. Physical symptoms are easy to assess.
- Trial name
- EDAPAL (NCT04148924)
- Testing
- Questionnaire, Medical staff questionnaire
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 100 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Hospices Civils de Lyon
Life-limiting Cancer With Prognosis of Approximately 1 Year
Effect of Early Palliative Care on Quality of Life of Patients With Advanced Cancer: a Randomised Controlled Trial.
The World Health Organization (WHO) defines palliative care as an approach to improve the quality of life of patients and their families facing life-threatening illness, through prevention and relief of pain and of physical…
- Trial name
- IPaC (NCT01865396)
- Testing
- Interventional palliative care, Standard oncologic care
- Where
- Belgium
- Volunteers
- 268 people
- Sponsor
- University Ghent
Cancer, Quality of Life
Integrative Care Training Program for Nurses on Supportive Cancer Care
The integration of complementary medicine in supportive and palliative cancer care (i.e., Integrative Oncology) is becoming more prevalent in many of the leading oncology centers in Israel and worldwide.
- Conditions
- Cancer, Quality of Life, Nurse's Role
- Trial name
- NCT03676153
- Testing
- Nurse-provided guidance, Integrative medicine treatment program
- Where
- Israel
- Volunteers
- 363 people
- Sponsor
- Carmel Medical Center
Terminal Cancer, End Stage Cancer
Using Wearable Device to Improve Quality of Palliative Care
This study is going to use wearable devices and smartphones to collect physical data from terminal patients and build a survival predicting model for terminal patients with machine learning.
- Trial name
- NCT05054907
- Where
- 2 sites in Taiwan
- Volunteers
- 75 people
- Sponsor
- National Taiwan University Hospital
Acute Leukaemia in Relapse
Early Palliative Care in Patient With Acute Leukaemia
Several studies have shown that patients with acute leukemia have many symptoms during disease These symptoms decrease the quality of life and may even appear or worsen other symptoms such as depression Several studies point to…
- Trial name
- Pablo Hemato (NCT02631811)
- Testing
- Supportive /palliative care intervention
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 49 people
- Sponsor
- Hospices Civils de Lyon
Pulmonary Hypertension, Nursing Care
Dynamic Mixed Learning Module in Pulmonary Hypertension Patients
This study was conducted to evaluate the effect of the Dynamic Blended Learning Module developed for patients diagnosed with pulmonary hypertension (PH) on symptom management.
- Conditions
- Pulmonary Hypertension, Nursing Care, Learning
- Trial name
- Learning (NCT07429552)
- Testing
- Symptom Management
- Where
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Volunteers
- 49 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Acibadem University
COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease), Symptom Management
The Effectiveness of Self-Management Education and Telephone Follow-up in Patient with COPD Exacerbation
According to the 2024 GOLD guidelines, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is defined as heterogeneous lung condition characterized by chronic respiratory symptoms (dyspnea, cough, sputum production, and/or…
- Conditions
- COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease), Symptom Management, Self-care Agency
- Trial name
- NCT06707649
- Testing
- Self Management Education, Telephone Follow-up
- Where
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Volunteers
- 150 people
- Sponsor
- Kirsehir Ahi Evran Universitesi
Primary Caregiver Readiness for Care and Psychological Resilience in Palliative Care
Nurse-Led AI-Supported Psychosocial Support for Palliative Caregivers
Primary caregivers of palliative care patients assume responsibility for meeting the patient's needs, monitoring symptoms, maintaining care practices, and managing changing needs.
- Trial name
- NCT07799389
- Testing
- Nurse-Led, Generative AI-Supported Individualized Psychosocial Support Program, Routine Care and Information
- Volunteers
- 88 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Kastamonu University