Outlook: An Intervention to Improve Quality of Life in Serious Illness

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Neoplasms, Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive, Heart Failure, Renal Disease

In brief

This study will demonstrate whether an end-of-life preparation and completion intervention reduces anxiety, depression, pain and other symptoms and improves functional status, spiritual well-being, and quality of life. If effective, the intervention offers a brief, inexpensive, and transportable non-physician treatment method for improving the experience of individuals in the latter stages of life-limiting illness.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00939146

Run by

Duke University

People needed

154

Starts

2010-02-01

Expected to finish

2013-09-01

Last updated by the study team

2014-02-07

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Eligible patients must have advanced life-limiting illness as determined by clinical criteria indicative of advance disease. Must be diagnosed with one of the following:
• Cancer: Stage IV metastatic cancer, pancreatic and lung cancers may include Stages III and IV, recurrent/refractory disease (multiple myeloma and related cancers);
• Congestive Heart Failure: NYHA Class III or IV;
• End-Stage Renal Disease: Dialysis dependent;
• Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Oxygen dependent.
• Also, eligible patients must receive care for one of the diseases above at Duke University Medical Center, have access to a telephone, live within a 35-mile radius of Durham, be at least 18 years of age, English speaking, and cognitively capable to give informed consent.

Where it is running

• Duke University Medical Center — Durham, North Carolina, United States

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