Impact of a Booklet-Question List on Cancer Patients or Their Families Seeking Prognostic Information During a Palliative Care Consultation

Study Overview
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Brief Summary
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Prospective, randomized, multicentre phase III study to evaluate the level and type of information requested by patients or families during a palliative care consultation after they have been given the Booklet-Question List (BQL).

Official Title
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Impact of a Booklet-Question List on Cancer Patients or Their Families Seeking Prognostic Information During a Palliative Care Consultation

Conditions
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Metastatic Cancer, Palliative Care

Intervention / Treatment
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* Other: Booklet-Question List


Participation Criteria
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Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion criteria: Patient over the age of 18 years, Patient who has signed the informed consent form after being given a written information sheet Patient followed for metastatic cancer with or without specific treatment, with a limited life expectancy Patient referred to the palliative care team. French-speaking Patient Exclusion criteria: Cognitive disorders Documented psychiatric disorders or marked psychological fragility

Ages Eligible for Study
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Minimum Age: 18 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study
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All

Accepts Healthy Volunteers
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No

Study Plan
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How is the study designed?
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Arms and Interventions

| Participant Group/Arm | Intervention/Treatment |
| --- | --- |
| Booklet-Question List (BQL) group<br>76 patients | Other: Booklet-Question List<br>* Booklet-Question List (BQL) proposed in palliative cares, divided into 8 chapters, given to the patient before the first palliative care consultation. Providing a list of questions to patients and their families without any obligations allows individual adaptation of information; patients or families who are afraid of asking these questions can take advantage of this opportunity, while respecting the need to avoid these subjects for other patients<br>|
| control group<br>Conventional palliative management 76 patients | |

What is the study measuring?
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Primary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| The number of questions asked or the concerns expressed that elicit a medical comment by the patient or the family during the palliative care consultation. |  | one month | 

Secondary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| HADS (Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale) anxiety and depression score |  | one month | 
| QLQC-15Pal palliative quality of life score | The EORTC QLQ-C15-PAL is a questionnaire developed to assess the quality of life of palliative cancer care patients | one month | 
| MB coping questionnaire score | The Brief COPE is the abbreviated version of the COPE Inventory and assesses dispositional as well as situational coping efforts . The 28-item Brief COPE (consisting of 14 subscales) has acceptable psychometric properties and has been used extensively to examine the relationship between various coping strategies and psychological outcomes | one month | 
| Two 5-point Likert scales on information needs and satisfaction with medical information |  | one month | 
| Specific questionnaire on the Booklet-Question List (mode of use, satisfaction) |  | one month | 

 Terms related to the study
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Keywords Provided by Centre Hospitalier Valida
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palliative care, cancer, quality of life