Clinical trial · Interventional
Family and Coping Oriented Palliative Homecare Nursing Aimed at Advanced Cancer Patients
Family and Coping Oriented Palliative Homecare Nursing as a Supplement to Standard Homecare Nursing Aimed at Advanced Cancer Patients - a Randomized Intervention Trial
- Source
- ClinicalTrials.gov
- Retrieved
- Sep 8, 2026
- Layer
- normalized (units and labels harmonized; values unchanged)
- Run
- ING-CLINICALTRIALS-20260908-000001
Summary
Brief summary (as posted)
When facing life threatening illness such as advanced cancer palliative care is needed to improve quality of life of patients and their families through the prevention and relief of suffering. Palliative care at an early stage prevents the development of problems and symptoms, but time, resources and experience are needed in the primary care sector in Denmark to deal with the problems families experiencing life with advanced cancer are facing. The aims of this study are to test, evaluate and further develop interventions that can help identify and assess problems, resources and opportunities of families experiencing life with advanced cancer, and on this background to help the families cope with their situation in cooperation with healthcare professionals to an extent where the family's quality of life increases, their physical and psychosocial problems are relieved, their symptoms of anxiety and depression are reduced, family satisfaction with health professionals are increased and acute readmissions to hospital are prevented.
Conditions
Conditions (1)
Free-text conditions as registered, with the CancerIndex entity they were reconciled to and the match type.
| Condition (as posted) | Mapped entity | Match | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Advanced Cancer | Malignant Neoplasm | CURATED_BROADER | 0.78 |
Interventions
Interventions (1)
| Intervention | Type | Mapped drug | Match |
|---|---|---|---|
| Palliative homecare nursing | Other | — | UNRESOLVED |
Design
Arms and outcomes
Arms (2)
- type
- EXPERIMENTAL
- label
- Palliative homecare nursing group
- description
- In addition to the standard homecare nursing the families will receive six home visits from a research nurse with at least 1 year specialised palliative care experience. During the first 2 hour visit a family assessment is obtained containing identification of family roles, resources and coping strategies. The first home visit takes place no later than one week after randomization. The visits continues every third week up to 16 weeks, each visit with a duration of 1,5 hours. At every visit the EORTC-QLQ-C30 patient administered questionnaire is used to identify the nature, frequency and intensity of the patients physical and psychosocial problems.
- interventionNames
- Other: Palliative homecare nursing
- type
- NO_INTERVENTION
- label
- Standard homecare nursing group
- description
- Patients continue to receive the standard homecare nursing. They can contact municipality services for visitation to homecare nursing if they feel that additional homecare is needed or if they do not yet receive this service and feel they need homecare nursing.
Primary outcomes (1)
Eligibility
Eligibility (as posted)
- Sex
- All
- Minimum age
- 18 Years
Show eligibility criteria text
Inclusion Criteria: At least one of the following * Cancer stage 3 or 4 (according to hospital journal)and at least one treatment after relapse without satisfying effect on the disease * The patient is aware that further treatment is of palliative or life prolonging nature And also all of following inclusion criterions * The patient has a family member that would like to participate (The family member must be involved in the patients care at least two times a week) * At least 18 years old (patient and family member) * Understand and speak danish (patient and family member) * Live in the area of the municipalities of Copenhagen or Frederiksberg * Discharge from hospital to own home * Written informed consent (patient and family member) Exclusion Criteria: * Terminal fase of disease * Contact with specialised palliative care * Incapable of co-operating with trial protocol * Participant in another behavioral intervention study
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