Pilot-testing a Perinatal Palliative Care Intervention Program

NARecruitingINTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment

20

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

May 18, 2025

Primary Completion Date

December 31, 2025

Study Completion Date

December 31, 2025

Conditions
Perinatal Palliative CareLife-limiting Fetal DiagnosisLife-limiting Neonatal Diagnosis
Interventions
BEHAVIORAL

Perinatal palliative care

Intervention group will receive specialized perinatal palliative care support from moment of severe perinatal diagnosis. This intervention is aimed at 5 major care components, namely 1. Support offered by a fixed perinatal palliative care team, 2. that team has received specialized perinatal palliative care training, 3. care is structured within a new perinatal palliative care approach or pathway, including fixed means of communication with team members, 4. psychological support is structurally being offered to parents and healthcare providers, and 5. debriefings after every perinatal death are being organized in the involved team.

Trial Locations (2)

1090

RECRUITING

UZ Brussels, Brussels

9000

NOT_YET_RECRUITING

UZ Gent, Ghent

All Listed Sponsors
lead

Vrije Universiteit Brussel

OTHER