Implementing Spiritual Care in Inpatient Palliative Care

Cancer Clinical Trial

— SCPC  

Official title:

Implementing Spiritual Care in Inpatient Palliative Care

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT06206551
• Other study ID #: 2023-465-b-S
• Status: Recruiting
• Start date: December 1, 2023
• Est. completion date: December 31, 2024

Study information

• Verified date: January 2024
• Source: University Hospital Muenster
• Contact: Philipp Lenz, Prof. Dr. med.
• Phone: +49 (0)251 8353052
• Email: philipp.lenz[@]ukmuenster.de
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

The goal of this observational study is to is to ascertain the spiritual needs of palliative patients in a standardized manner using the Spiritual Needs Questionnaire and to promptly address those needs by (specialized) spiritual care.

To determine whether the effort of implementing the Spiritual Needs Questionnaire on a sustainable basis on the one hand brings the expected benefit to the patients and on the other hand can be provided by the pastoral care personnel, at Muenster University Hospital (specialized) spiritual care interventions will be documented in detail and retrospectively and prospectively collected data will be compared.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 300
• Est. completion date: December 31, 2024
• Est. primary completion date: May 31, 2024
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• All individual indication for general and specialised Palliative Care in clinical setting/routine (e.g.):

• Progressive, malign tumours

• Progressive, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

• Patients with progressive disease and limited life expectancy (< ca. 12 months)

• Patients attended by Palliative Caregivers in counselling services or on palliative ward

• Life expectancy > 2 weeks

• Sufficient comprehension of German language and writing that allows an autonomous or supported completion of the questionnaire.

• Existence of an independently signed written consent.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Severe cognitive impairment

• capacity for consent lacking or impaired

• impaired comprehension of German language and writing that would not allow an autonomous or supported completion of the questionnaire.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Cancer
• Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
• Heart Failure
• Lung Diseases, Obstructive
• Motor Neuron Disease
• Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive

Intervention

Other:
• Spiritual Needs Questionnaire
This questionnaire captures the spiritual needs of patients and is used in its short version (screener).This questionnaire is used as part of standard treatment for all palliative care inpatients.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Germany	University Hospital Muenster	Muenster	North Rhine-Westphalia

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University Hospital Muenster

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Germany, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Feasibility of standardized and evidence-based recordation and implementation of Spiritual Care in Palliative Care	Feasibility of standardized and evidence-based recordation and implementation of Spiritual Care in Palliative Care based on the number of interventions provided by general and/or specialized Spiritual Care for patients with ascertained needs detected by the validated Spiritual Needs Questionnaire in German language.	6 months
Secondary	Recordation of needs for general / specialized spiritual care in palliative care	Recordation of needs for general / specialized spiritual care in palliative care consultation service and palliative ward of a university tertiary care hospital.	6 months
Secondary	Differences in use and outcomes comparing standardised and non-standardised evaluation of spiritual care needs (comparison with retrospective data).	s. title	6 months
Secondary	Examination of further descriptive and analysing comparisons of retrospective data and intervention group.	s. title	6 months