For optimal patient care, it is imperative that healthcare professionals implement appropriate strategies. These strategies must take into account changes in healthcare practices associated with advances in medications and medical equipment. Clinical trials play a crucial role in validating the efficacy and safety of these advances, ensuring high-quality and constantly improving healthcare.
However the proportion of patients included in therapeutic trials is often considered too low.
Several ideas have been explored to explain the low participation rate in research projects. These are closely linked to research actors and tools, such as, for example:
* the research protocol and its eligibility criteria, which may be overly strict * healthcare professionals with the barriers encountered in carrying out research programs (motivation, attitude and perceptions, human, logistical and technical constraints, lack of training) * patients who are generally poorly acculturated to clinical research, the lack of information for patients in healthcare services, and patients' lack of trust in the healthcare system. * ...
In Martinique, healthcare professionals face the same challenges in including patients in clinical trials.
Patient inclusion is necessary due to the region's demographic and medical characteristics. To improve patient inclusion in these trials, it is important to define the human and material barriers and levers that influence the participation of patients and healthcare professionals in clinical research protocols in the medical oncology departments of the Martinique University Hospital.
The investigators believe that increased patient awareness of the benefits of clinical research, equally increased incentives for healthcare professionals, and the establishment of adequate support structures would increase participation in clinical research protocols within the medical oncology departments of the Martinique University Hospital.
By conducting a mixed qualitative and quantitative study to gather the perspectives of patients and caregivers, the investigators aim to identify the human and material barriers that limit the participation of oncology patients in Martinique.
Male or female,
Age ≥ 18 years,
Patient being treated for cancer at the University Hospital Center of Martinique,
Patient who can read and/or understand French,
Patient with known cognitive impairments that prevent them from completing the questionnaire,
Subjects under legal protection (guardianship/curatorship),
Subjects at an advanced stage of the disease (asthenia),
Written or oral objection from the patient to the use of data for research purposes.
* Patient being treated for cancer at the University Hospital Center of Martinique. * Qualified healthcare professional working in the medical oncology departments of the University Hospital Center of Martinique.
Cohort
Prospective
Qualitative Study: Semi-structured interview for patients
Other interventionA semi-structured interview, lasting 20 to 30 minutes, will be conducted by the sociologist and anthropologist. They will use questionnaires (semi-structured interview grids), administered to patients face-to-face or by telephone. Patients will be interviewed only once. The interview grid includes the following sections: personal characteristics such as age, family and professional situation, municipality of residence, and knowledge of clinical research.
Quantitative Study : Healthcare professionals questionnaires
Other interventionQuestionnaires will be administered by email, in a single session, to healthcare professionals who have agreed to participate in the study.
Qualitative study with patients: questioning the participation of patients from the services involved in medical oncology at the Martinique University Hospital in clinical research projects and identifying the obstacles and levers to this participation.
A semi-structured interview, lasting 20 to 30 minutes, will be conducted by the sociologist and anthropologist. They will use questionnaires (semi-structured interview grids), administered to patients face-to-face or by telephone. Patients will be interviewed only once. The interview grid includes the following sections: personal characteristics such as age, family and professional situation, municipality of residence, and knowledge of clinical research.
Quantitative study among professionals: measure the proportion of healthcare professionals of CHU of Martinique who have already participated in clinical research projects or agreed to participate in them treating patients with medical oncology needs.
Questionnaires will be administered by email, in a single session, to healthcare professionals who have agreed to participate in the study.
Qualitative patient study: Research the existence of factors associated with patient participation such as age, gender, socio-professional category, etc.
Factors such as age, gender, socio-professional category, etc... will be studied.
Quantitative study among professionals: Measure the importance of identified barriers and enablers for participating in clinical research projects among healthcare professionals in the medical oncology departments of the Martinique University Hospital.
Percentages obtained for each lever or brake identified.
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University Hospital Center of Martinique
Lead sponsor
KaFE Association (Karaib Formation Etudes)
Collaborator
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