Clinical trial NCT02845817: Requests for Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide
Official title: Requests for Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide: a Prospective, Multicenter and Qualitative Study of Their Frequency and Characteristics, of Patients' Motivations and Their Evolution
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Palliative Care
End of Life
Euthanasia
Assisted Suicide
Qualitative Research
Lead sponsor: Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Besancon
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Maison Médicale Jeanne Garnier
First posted: 2016-07-27
Enrollment: 31
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: NA
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP

Brief summary: This study take place in the palliative care units of Burgundy-Franche-Comté regions and at the Maison Médicale Jeanne Garnier. The main aim of this project is to analyze and understand the meaning of explicit requests to hasten death (euthanasia and assisted suicide).

This involves conducting interviews with patients, carers to whom the request has been expressed and a relative chosen by the patient. This study aims to describe the request over time. This will be done through two series of interviews, one as soon as it is first expressed, then one week later.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Adult not under guardianship or curatorship,
* Hospitalized in palliative care units of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region and in the Maison Médicale Jeanne Garnier in Paris,
* At the end of life due to advanced stage disease or a major change in the state of health of an elderly person,
* They have made an explicit request for euthanasia or assisted suicide,
* They are in capacity to meet researchers for interview,
* Having consented to interviews,
* They are covered by the French social security system.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Adult under guardianship or curatorship,
* They are underage,
* They are not hospitalized in Palliative Care Unit of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region and in the Maison Médicale Jeanne Garnier,
* The request was expressed by another person or not explicit,
* They didn't consent to interviews,
* The request appears in the context of a situation other than illness or a general change in state of health
* They are not in capacity to meet researchers for interviews.

Primary outcomes:
measure: 70 semi-structured interviews
timeFrame: 12 months
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Besançon
country: France
facility: CHRU Besançon - Palliative Care Unit
state: Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Study officials:
affiliation: Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Besançon
name: Régis AUBRY, PR
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
affiliation: Maison Médicale Jeanne Garnier
name: Danièle LEBOUL, MCU
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
affiliation: Maison Médicale Jeanne Garnier
name: Frédéric GUIRIMAND, DR
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
affiliation: Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Besançon
name: Aline CHASSAGNE, IRC
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
affiliation: Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Besançon
name: Florence MATHIEU-NICOT, Phd
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
affiliation: Maison Médicale Jeanne Garnier
name: Anne BOUSQUET, Phd
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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