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NCT Number: NCT00495482

Incurable Ill Patients Attitudes Towards Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide

Euthanasia and assisted dying are of growing interest for patients with incurable diseases. The possible methods are widely discussed by patient-societies, physicians, lawyers, theologians and philosophers. During the last years several opinion-polls were conducted with healthy people or medical stuff, but no surveys were conducted to get the attitude of incurable ill patients.

The hypothesis of the investigators' study is: "Palliative Care Medicine is a better option for incurable ill patients than an assisted suicide."

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Key information

Conditions

Incurable Cancer Diseases Behavior Behavioral Symptoms Other Incurable Diseases Self-Injurious Behavior Suicide Suicide, Assisted

Age range

18 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Observational

Primary location

Klinikum St. Georg gGmbH

Leipzig, Saxony, 04105, Germany

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • Age >= 18 years
  • Incurable illness
  • Mental state thet allows to answer a questionnaire

Exclusion criteria

  • Somnolence
  • Low mental state
  • Curable disease
  • Depression with danger of acute suicide

Treatment and study plan

Primary outcomes

  1. Patients intention to assisted suicide

    Time frame: up to four weeks after beginning of palliative treatment

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Klinikum St. Georg gGmbH

Other

Registry information

Official study title

Incurable Ill Patients Attitudes to Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide: A Prospective, Multi-Centre Trial in Palliative Care Units in Saxony

Acronym: ESPIL

Important dates

Study start
2006
Study completion
2010
First posted
Jul 3, 2007
Registry last updated
Nov 14, 2012

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