Promoting Dignity, Meaningfulness and Mental Well-Being

NACompletedINTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment

10

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

March 5, 2020

Primary Completion Date

September 30, 2023

Study Completion Date

November 15, 2023

Conditions
Life-limiting Serious Illness
Interventions
PROCEDURE

Dignity Therapy (DT) module

psychotherapeutic intervention asking patients about their most important achievements, roles and other important aspects of life; two structured sessions of 60 minutes conducted by a trained therapist

PROCEDURE

CALM Therapy module

supportive-expressive psychotherapy aiming to help (1) manage the disease, symptom and treatment, and communicate with healthcare providers, to (2) adjust to changes in self-concept, personal relationships, and support needs, to (3) find a sense of meaning and purpose in life, and to (4) prepare for the future, sustain hope, and face the end of life; two structured sessions of 60 minutes conducted by a trained therapist

PROCEDURE

Mindfulness-based interventions module

Mind-body techniques reducing existential and spiritual distress and dealing with common experiences related to life-limiting diseases, including loss of control, uncertainty about the future; two structured sessions of 60 minutes conducted by a trained therapist

Trial Locations (1)

4031

Department of Psychosomatics, University Hospital of Basel, Basel

All Listed Sponsors
collaborator

Stanley Thomas Johnson Stiftung

UNKNOWN

lead

University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland

OTHER

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