DIFIC: Financial Distress in Patients With Advanced Cancer

• Sponsor: Hospices Civils de Lyon (Other)
• Overall Status: Completed
• CT.gov ID: NCT01868100
• Collaborator: (none)
• Enrollment: 144
• Location: 1
• Arm: 1
• Duration (Months): 15
• Patients Per Site Per Month: 9.6

Study Details

Study Description

Brief Summary

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.

Condition or Disease	Intervention/Treatment	Phase
Cancer; Quality of Life	Other: self-completion questionnaire	N/A

Study Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Actual Enrollment: 144 participants
• Allocation: N/A
• Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)
• Primary Purpose: Supportive Care
• Official Title: Preliminary Study of Financial Distress and Quality of Life in Patients With Advanced Cancer
• Study Start Date: Mar 1, 2013
• Actual Primary Completion Date: Jun 1, 2014
• Actual Study Completion Date: Jun 1, 2014

Arms and Interventions

Arm	Intervention/Treatment
No Intervention: self-completion questionnaire	Other: self-completion questionnaire

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcome Measures

1. Financial distress and quality of life [Cross sectional (one day)]

   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 Criteria

Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 Years and Older
• Sexes Eligible for Study: All
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

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.

Contacts and Locations

Locations

	Site	City	State	Country	Postal Code
1	Unité de soins palliatifs Groupement Hospitalier Sud	Pierre-Bénite	Pierre Bénite	France	69495

Sponsors and Collaborators

• Hospices Civils de Lyon

Investigators

None specified.

Study Documents (Full-Text)

None provided.

More Information

Publications

None provided.

• Responsible Party: Hospices Civils de Lyon
• ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01868100
• Other Study ID Numbers: 2012.762
• First Posted: Jun 4, 2013
• Last Update Posted: May 28, 2019
• Last Verified: Jun 1, 2013

• Keywords provided by Hospices Civils de Lyon: Cancer; quality of life; palliative care; supportive care; Financial distress

Study Results

No Results Posted as of May 28, 2019