Clinical trial · Interventional
Financial Distress in Patients With Advanced Cancer
Preliminary Study of Financial Distress and Quality of Life in Patients With Advanced Cancer
- 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)
Advanced cancer has an adverse effect in virtually all dimensions of patients' lives (physical, psychosocial, spiritual, familial, role function). One of the less frequently explored effects of cancer is its impact on personal finances and the contribution of financial-related distress to overall suffering and quality of life. Financial issues have been recently found to be the second most frequent source of distress identified by cancer patients in a community cancer center context (22%). In the context of continuous increased health care costs, it is likely that the frequency of health care related financial problems will keep rising. The relative contribution of these adverse financial events in advanced cancer patients to overall patient distress is not well assessed and this is particularly true in France. The main objective of this work is to determine the association between financial distress and quality of life of patients with advanced cancer in a Public General Hospital and in a Comprehensive Cancer Center. A secondary objective is to characterize the frequency and intensity of financial distress reported by French cancer patients and their impact on their quality of life.
Conditions
Conditions (2)
Free-text conditions as registered, with the CancerIndex entity they were reconciled to and the match type.
| Condition (as posted) | Mapped entity | Match | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cancer | Malignant Neoplasm | ALIAS | 0.90 |
| Quality of Life | — | UNRESOLVED | — |
Interventions
Interventions (1)
| Intervention | Type | Mapped drug | Match |
|---|---|---|---|
| self-completion questionnaire | Other | — | UNRESOLVED |
Design
Arms and outcomes
Arms (1)
- type
- NO_INTERVENTION
- label
- self-completion questionnaire
- interventionNames
- Other: self-completion questionnaire
Primary outcomes (1)
- measure
- Financial distress and quality of life
- timeFrame
- Cross sectional (one day)
- description
- FACT-G; FACT-pal; FACT-sp for the quality of life; Self-assessment of financial distress in a 0 to 10 scale(0 no distress; 10 maximal distress)
Eligibility
Eligibility (as posted)
- Sex
- All
- Minimum age
- 18 Years
Show eligibility criteria text
Inclusion Criteria: * Patients must be at least 18 years old and have a diagnosis of advanced cancer which is defined as one of the following: recurrent disease, received \>2 lines of chemotherapy, locally-advanced disease, metastatic disease, or refractory disease. * Patients must have a cancer diagnosis of: breast, colon, lung or prostate. * Patients must be able to understand, read, write, and speak French. Exclusion Criteria: * Clinical evidence of cognitive impairment, as determined by the palliative care physician.
References
Publications (1)
- RESULTBarbaret C, Brosse C, Rhondali W, Ruer M, Monsarrat L, Michaud P, Schott AM, Delgado-Guay M, Bruera E, Sanchez S, Filbet M. Financial distress in patients with advanced cancer. PLoS One. 2017 May 18;12(5):e0176470. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0176470. eCollection 2017. PMID 28545063