Palliative Care
Associated Groups
Clinical research carried out by an interdisciplinary team in an acute palliative care hospital unit.
Main Lines of Research
- Art therapy at the end of life. (Collette, Nadia).
- Prevention and management of professional stress through art therapy. (Collette, Nadia).
- Electronic patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs). (Martinez Peralta, Susana).
- Specialist palliative care and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. (Forero Vega, Diana)
- Family caregiver burden and complexity factors in palliative care inpatients. (Secanella García, Cristina).
Scientific Challenges
- Effectiveness of art therapy in addressing existential needs and resources in the face of suffering among patients at the end of life.
- Benefits of art therapy in promoting self-care and in preventing or managing work-related stress and burnout among healthcare professionals.
- Feasibility of an electronic tool for assessing patient-reported outcome measures (PROMS) in patients with advanced-stage diseases.
- Multidisciplinary coordination and early palliative care interventions to care for the complex needs of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis patients.
- Detection of patient complexity factors in palliative care to prevent family caregiver burden and to optimize the discharge destination matching. .
Contacte
Nadia Collette
ncollette@santpau.cat