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Promoting Dignity, Meaningfulness and Mental Well-Being

CompletedNA

Sponsor: University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland

Conditions: Life-limiting Serious Illness

Interventions: Dignity Therapy (DT) module, CALM Therapy module, Mindfulness-based interventions module

Countries: Switzerland

Feasibility study to test the feasibility and acceptability of a designed personalized modular Intervention consisting of three modules, including Cancer and Living Meaningfully (CALM) Therapy, Dignity Therapy (DT), and a mindfulness-based Intervention

Eligibility overview

Sex: ALL

Age: 18 Years to —

Healthy volunteers: No

Study type: INTERVENTIONAL

Eligibility criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

* Informed Consent as documented by signature
* Patients in palliative situation (i.e. patients suffering from an advanced, incurable, life-limiting disease with multimodal support needs)
* Estimated life expectancy ≤ 18 months
* Patients seen by the palliative consultation-liaison service at the University Hospital Basel as an in- or outpatient
* Willingness and capacity to commit at least three contacts over about 7-10 days

Exclusion Criteria:

* Being delirious or otherwise substantially cognitively impaired (based on clinical consensus)
* Being too ill to complete the requirements of the study protocol
* Unable to understand and speak German

Locations (1)

Basel, Switzerland