Clinical trial NCT02843776: Requests for Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide
Official title: Requests for Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide : Epidemiological Study Conducted as Part of the Establishment of a Structured Network
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Suicide, Assisted
Keywords: Palliative Care
Euthanasia
Epidemiologic Studies
Lead sponsor: Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Besancon
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Dijon
name: Centre Hospitalier Pontarlier
name: Centre Hospitalier de Haute Saône
name: Centre Hospitalier du Val de Saône
name: Centre Hospitalier Louis Pasteur
name: Centre Hospitalier Champagnole
name: Centre Hospitalier Lons le Saunier
name: Centre Hospitalier Saint Claude
name: Centre Hospitalier Belfort Montbéliard
name: Centre Hospitalier Beaune
name: Centre Hospitalier Chatillon Montbard
name: Centre Hospitalier de l'Agglomération de Nevers
name: Centre Hospitalier William Morey - Chalon sur Saône
name: Centre Hospitalier Macon
name: Centre Hospitalier de Monceau les Mines
name: Centre Hospitalier Paray le Monial
name: Centre Hospitalier Sens
name: Centre Hospitalier Auxerre
name: Centre Hospitalier Tonnerre
name: Centre Hospitalier Joigny
name: Réseau Opale
name: Réseau Départemental de Soins Palliatifs de la Nièvre
name: Groupement des Professionnels de Santé du Pays Beaunois
name: Réseau ARESPA
name: Réseau Pléiade
First posted: 2016-07-26
Enrollment: 65
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Observational model: COHORT
Time perspective: PROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: The study epiDESA2 identifies all explicit requests for euthanasia or assisted suicide expressed by the person him/herself regardless of where the request is made (primary care, health institutions, medico-social institutions including EHPADs or at home) in the regions of Burgundy-Franche-Comté during six months.

Brief summary: The study epiDESA2 identifies all explicit requests for euthanasia or assisted suicide expressed by the person him/herself, regardless of which professional is asked and regardless of where the request is made (primary care, health institutions, medico-social institutions including nursing home care or at home) in the Burgundy-Franche-Comté region during six months.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

Any adult :

* Living at home, or in medico-social institutions or hospitalized in primary care or health institutions of Burgundy-Franche-Comté,
* At the end of life due to advanced stage disease or a major change in the state of health of an elderly person,
* Who expressed an explicit request for euthanasia or assisted suicide,
* Who expressed their no objection to the collection of their datas,
* Who are covered by the French social security system.

Exclusion Criteria:

* They are underage
* The request was expressed by another person
* The request is not an explicit request
* The request appears in the context of a situation other than illness or a general change in state of health
* The patient is mentally confused

Primary outcomes:
measure: Census of requests for euthanasia or assisted suicide in Burgundy-Franche-Comté
timeFrame: 6 months
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Besancon
country: France
facility: CHRU Besançon
Study officials:
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