Exploring supportive and palliative care in pulmonary fibrosis

  • Research type

    Research Study

  • Full title

    What are the palliative care support and information needs of people affected pulmonary fibrosis, and how can palliative care services and approaches better meet these needs?

  • IRAS ID

    330149

  • Contact name

    Andrew Wilson

  • Contact email

    a.m.wilson@uea.ac.uk

  • Sponsor organisation

    University of East Anglia

  • Duration of Study in the UK

    0 years, 7 months, 30 days

  • Research summary

    People with interstitial lung disease have a limited life expectancy and a high burden of symptoms. Despite this there is limited research into methods of improving their access to symptom control and end of life care. This project will seek the views of patients and their carers to find out their issues and discuss ways of over coming them. We will conduct focus groups or semi-structured interviews then analyse the results using qualitative analysis before publishing our findings. We hope this information will permit the development of an intervention to improve palliative care for interstitial lung disease.

  • REC name

    Wales REC 6

  • REC reference

    23/WA/0303

  • Date of REC Opinion

    22 Nov 2023

  • REC opinion

    Further Information Favourable Opinion