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Pilot Study of Living With Hope Program

NCT01697982 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 19

Last updated 2014-12-04

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Hope is important to palliative home care patients. Our research team has developed a Living with Hope Program that has been found to increase hope and quality of life in older persons with advanced cancer.

The investigators want to know if this program increases hope and quality of life for all palliative home care patients (all ages, all diagnosis). Thirty palliative home care patients and their care partners will participate in this pilot study to evaluate the study procedures and the living with hope program.

Conditions

  • Quality of Life

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Living with Hope Program

The Living with Hope Program involves viewing a short film entitled Living with Hope, which is based on the research team's grounded theory study, and shows cases of terminally ill persons and their family members talking about how they maintain their hope. Participants then choose to begin one of three hope activities: a) Write or ask someone to help you write one or more letters to someone begin to write a letter to someone, b) Begin a Hope Collection or c) begin an "About Me Collection."

BEHAVIORAL

LWH film

Participants will view the Living with Hope film which is based on the research team's grounded theory study, and shows cases of terminally ill persons and their family members talking about how they maintain their hope.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Alberta

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Wendy Duggleby, PhD · University of Alberta

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Model
FACTORIAL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2012-09-30
Primary Completion
2014-07-31
Completion
2014-07-31

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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