NCT01697982

✓ Unanimous Initial: non-cancer Requery: non-cancer — The eligibility criteria and study design target all palliative home care patients regardless of diagnosis, and do not specifically recruit a cancer patient population.

✓ Unanimous Initial: non-cancer Requery: non-cancer — While the study mentions advanced cancer in keywords and involves palliative care patients, the inclusion criteria explicitly targets all palliative home care patients regardless of diagnosis, making this a general palliative care study rather than cancer-specific.

✓ Unanimous Initial: Cancer Requery: non-cancer — The trial targets general palliative home care patients of all diagnoses, not specifically cancer patients.

✓ Unanimous Initial: N/A

✓ Unanimous Initial: early palliative care Requery: N/A — The study includes patients with all diagnoses receiving palliative care services, which creates a mixed population that is too general to classify into a specific non-cancer category.

✓ Unanimous Initial: N/A Requery: N/A — The study targets a general palliative care population without specifying a non-cancer diagnosis or disease-specific category.

✓ Unanimous Initial: yes Requery: no — The intervention being tested is a behavioral psychological program (Living with Hope), which happens to be delivered in a palliative care setting but is not a palliative care service itself.

✓ Unanimous Initial: yes Requery: no — The intervention is a behavioral/psychosocial hope program (film viewing and hope activities) delivered to palliative care patients, not palliative care consultation or service delivery itself.

✓ Unanimous Initial: no Requery: no — The trial involves testing a psychosocial intervention (Living with Hope Program) to increase hope and quality of life, not palliative care consultation or service delivery.

✓ Unanimous Initial: no Requery: no — The intervention is a psychosocial program designed to foster hope through viewing a film and performing therapeutic activities (like writing letters or collections), rather than providing patient education or training.

✓ Unanimous Initial: no Requery: no — This is a psychosocial hope intervention involving watching a film and engaging in hope activities (letter writing, collections), which is behavioral/therapeutic rather than primarily educational or training-focused.

✓ Unanimous Initial: yes Requery: no — The primary component of the intervention is focused on hope enhancement and improvement of quality of life, not education or training.

✓ Unanimous Initial: yes Requery: yes — The McGill Quality of Life Questionnaire (MQOL) includes a validated subscale specifically designed to measure existential well-being, which directly aligns with the definition of a dignity-related outcome.

✓ Unanimous Initial: no Thinking: yes — The McGill Quality of Life Questionnaire includes existential well-being as one of its five sub-measures.

✓ Unanimous Initial: no Requery: no — The trial focuses on hope and quality of life, without specifically measuring existential or spiritual well-being through specified instruments like the PDI, FACIT-Sp, or Demoralization Scale. Thinking: yes — The McGill Quality of Life Questionnaire explicitly measures an existential well-being subscale, addressing existential themes relevant to dignity.

✓ Unanimous Initial: yes Requery: yes — The trial measures feasibility metrics and caregiver outcomes (care partners' levels of hope) in addition to patient hope, quality of life, and anxiety.

✓ Unanimous Initial: yes Requery: no — All outcomes measure quality of life (McGill Quality of Life Questionnaire) and hope (Herth Hope Index), which fall under the QoL category. Thinking: yes — The trial evaluates feasibility of study procedures through qualitative interviews, which falls under feasibility metrics.

✓ Unanimous Initial: no Requery: yes — The trial includes caregiver outcomes as it collects care partners' levels of hope and their evaluation of the study procedures, which are not covered by symptom/QoL/dignity/cost categories. Thinking: yes — The study measures care partners’ (caregiver) hope and evaluations, which are caregiver outcomes outside the symptom/quality-of-life/dignity/cost domains.