Confirming And Notifying Death
For patients and families
In plain language
An automatic summary of structured registry data. It is an orientation aid, not a substitute for the official protocol or a physician assessment.
- What is being studied
- This is an observational study: the protocol does not assign a study treatment.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Death Records. Basic parameters: from 18 years · All.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- France
- Next step
- Save the trial, show it to the treating physician, and confirm current recruitment with the study center. Costs, documents and travel →
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Official title
Confirming And Notifying Death : Blended Learning and Its Evaluation by Medical Students, an Acceptability Study"
Overview
Most physicians are confronted with the death of patients during their practice, often as early as residency. It is their legal responsibility to certify a patient's death, as well as often to notify their loved ones. Yet, these duties currently receive little or no specific training during the various cycles of medical education. This task is not easy, however, and young professionals experience it with difficulty. Literature data show that residents are confronted with death late in their medical education and that they are insufficiently prepared when they have to perform their first death certificate. Indeed, residents report significantly correlated practical and emotional difficulties. These difficulties are notably linked to a feeling of lack of preparation through theoretical courses, a lack of familiarity with administrative procedures, and insufficient mastery of communicating with families. The highlighting of these difficulties and the desire for appropriate and respectful care for the deceased and their families, for whom the moment of announcement influences the experience of grief, call for an improvement in teaching on these topics. It is in this sense that the project was born to explore whether the creation of training, before their independent exposure to death and its announcement, i.e. at the end of the second cycle, was relevant. A prerequisite for this type of training project is indeed to question the acceptability of such an approach by students.
Primary outcome measures
- To assess the acceptability of training in death certification and death notification to relatives by DFASM3 students in Strasbourg. [Time frame: At 6 months]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- DFASM3 student,
- At the Faculty of Medicine of Strasbourg, France, for the 2023-2024 academic year,
- Having taken the national ECOS (thus becoming an intern at the start of the following academic year in November 2024),
- Aged 18 years or older,
- Not opposed to participating in the study.
- Not having completed an internship in specialized palliative care facilities
Exclusion criteria
- Refused to participate in the study.
- Not having taken the national ECOS.
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: No
Study design
- Observational model
- Cohort
Study locations
France · 1 center
- Service de soins Palliatifs - CHU de Strasbourg - France — Strasbourg
Identifiers
NCT: NCT06910176 · 9304