Assessing the feasibility, acceptability and potential effectiveness of Dignity Therapy for people with advanced cancer referred to a hospital-based palliative care team: Study protocol

Table 1 Measures for each time point

	Patients		Family/friends
	Intervention	Control	Intervention	Control
At patient recruitment
Patient characteristics	x	x
Patient Dignity Inventory¹⁰	x	x
Herth Hope Index¹³	x	x
Hospital Anxiety & Depression Scale¹¹	x	x
Distress Thermometer¹²	x	x
EQ-5D¹⁴ (Quality of life)	x	x
Two item measure of quality of Life	x	x
Palliative Care Outcome Scale¹⁵	x	x
As soon as possible post intervention
Acceptability of therapy/study (interviews)	x	x	x	x
Patient Dignity Inventory¹⁰	x	x
Herth Hope Index¹³	x	x
Hospital Anxiety & Depression Scale¹¹	x	x
Distress Thermometer¹²	x	x
EQ-5D¹⁴ (Quality of life)	x	x
Two item measure of quality of Life	x	x
Palliative Care Outcome Scale¹⁵	x	x
One month post intervention
Acceptability of therapy/study	x	x
Patient Dignity Inventory¹⁰	x	x
Herth Hope Index¹³	x	x
Hospital Anxiety & Depression Scale¹¹	x	x
Distress Thermometer¹²	x	x
EQ-5D¹⁴ (Quality of life)	x	x
Two item measure of quality of Life	x	x
Palliative Care Outcome Scale¹⁵	x	x
Three months post bereavement*
Hospital Anxiety & Depression Scale¹¹			x	x
Complicated Grief assessment²⁰			x	x
Acceptability of therapy/study			x	x
Palliative Care Outcome Scale¹⁵			x	x

* It is likely that it will not be possible to collect post bereavement outcomes from all the recipients of the legacy documents within the relatively short timeframe of this pilot study. However, in depth qualitative data on their views of the therapy, taking part in the study and completing the outcome measures will be obtained from those who are interviewed.

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