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Anticipated Patient and Caregiver Burden

NCT05632757 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 126

Last updated 2024-11-25

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Summary

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a degenerative neurological disease that causes progressive motor disability and is life threatening within a few years. The severity of the disease, the progressive loss of autonomy that leads to dependence on family and caregivers, and the lack of effective treatment sometimes leads patients to a loss of hope and to dark thoughts. The prevalence of suicidal ideation is high, with more than one third of people with ALS experiencing it. The psychological suffering of patients is often associated with that of their caregivers. The evaluation of the patients' feeling of being a burden has rarely been addressed in previous studies in ALS on the notion of burden. In this work, the investigators wish to evaluate the patient's ideas of death by also taking into account the caregiver's burden and the patient's feeling of being a burden. They wish to better understand this difficult experience by refocusing the study on the patient himself, which has rarely been addressed in studies on ALS and the notion of burden. By working on the caregiver's burden, both from the caregiver's point of view and as perceived by the patient, the investigators hope to find avenues of intervention and define actions that could help patients and their families and improve the quality of life of the patient-caregiver couple.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Psychological assessments

The visit will take place during a multidisciplinary assessment in the ALS Center at the Timone Hospital, Neuromuscular Disease and ALS Department. The patient will be accompanied by his/her caregiver. During this multidisciplinary assessment, the patient is present at the hospital between 8am and 4pm. The various scales and self-questionnaires can be completed during this time. The time required to complete these scales and self-questionnaires is estimated to be about 90 minutes.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Assistance Publique Hopitaux De Marseille

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Annie Verschueren · AP-HM

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2023-06-22
Primary Completion
2026-12-22
Completion
2027-06-22

Countries

  • France

Study Locations

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