NCT06549075Completed
Therapeutic Support to Strengthen Dignity, Mental Well-being and Quality of Life in Acute Palliative Care Patients.
Efficacy of a Personalized Modular Intervention to Promote Dignity, Meaningfulness and Mindfulness by a Palliative Care Consultation-Liaison Service in Swiss Acute Hospital Care. A Randomized Controlled Trial
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 20 Oct 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
The goal of this clinical trial is to test the benefit of a newly designed personalized therapeutic intervention compared to the standard specialized palliative care service at the swiss acute palliative hospital care.The main questions it aims to answer are: Does an additional therapeutic support that fits the individual needs of a palliative care patient increases dignity and mental well-being as measures by a questionnaire (Patient Dignity Inventory) to a larger extent than standard palliative care alone? Is the additional therapeutic support perceived as helpful? Researchers will compare the additional therapeutic support with standard palliative care to standard palliative care alone. Participants will: Receive additional therapeutic support in two structured sessions a 60 minutes and/or standard palliative care Fill out questionnaires before and after therapeutic interventions and standard palliative care Provide a semi-structured interview following the therapeutic support
- Status (registry)
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 42 (actual)
- First submitted
- 8 Aug 2024
- Start date
- 10 Sept 2024
- Primary completion date
- 28 May 2026
- Lead sponsor
- University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland
- Diseases
- Prostate cancer, Glioblastoma
- NCT number
- NCT06549075
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Participants enrolled: 42
- From 10 Sept 2024 to the primary completion date, 28 May 2026
- 1 site in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
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Other illness
- Inability to follow the procedures of the study due to psychological disorders, dementia, or other cognitively impairment of the participant,
Other
- Delirious (ICD-10: F05.9)
- Inability to give consent (lack of decisional capacity to consent)
- Too ill to complete the requirements of the protocol
- Unable to understand, speak and read German
Who the study is looking for
- Informed Consent
- Patients seen by the palliative consultation-liaison service at the University Hospital Basel as an in- or outpatient
- Suffering from a life-limiting serious illness (≤ 18 months)
- ≥ 18 years of age
- Willingness and capacity to commit to three study visits
Age in the registry: 18 years to - · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| University Hospial Basel Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Basel | Switzerland | Unknown status |
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