Table 1 Eligibility criteria
INCLUSION CRITERIA |
For all participants (patients, health professionals and third persons) |
- Participants aged 18 or over |
- Curious and motivated to participate in programme |
- Participant with no current or previous experience of regular or intensive practice of meditation or |
- comparable practice. Practice considered regular and / or intensive if: |
• it occurs more than one day per week for more than 6 consecutive months over the last 10 years, |
• and/or in case of more than 5 consecutive days of intensive practice (internship or retirement) in the last 10 years, |
• and/or more than 25 consecutive days of (cumulative) retirement over the last 10 years |
- Participant available to follow full meditation programme (3-month period) |
- Participant agreeing to participate by signing study information note |
- Participant able to understand, speak and read French |
- Participant able to use digital media and having internet connection |
Patient-specific criteria (target population) |
- Patients with cancer |
- State of health compatible with study meditation programme |
- Patient affiliated to a French social insurance system |
Health-professionals-specific criteria |
- All medical and/or paramedical health professionals of sponsor centre in contact with patients (doctors, nurses, nurse assistants, radiotherapy/radiology operatives…) |
Criteria specific to third persons |
- Any voluntary person not belonging to the two categories above |
NON-INCLUSION CRITERIA |
For all participants |
- Participant with significant vulnerability factors: dependence on alcohol and drugs, severe depression, severe social anxiety, recent mourning etc.) |
- Participant unable to participate for geographic, social or psychopathological reasons |
- Participant deprived of liberty or under guardianship |
For patients |
- Very advanced stage of cancer disease with life-threatening symptoms |
- Very advanced stage of cancer disease with life-threatening symptoms |
For third persons |
- Health professional, regardless of their place of practice |