Spiritual Assessment in Chronic Pain Patients

Chronic Pain Clinical Trial

Official title:

Spiritual Assessment in Chronic Pain Patients: Construction and Validation of a Screening Tool in Health Care

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03679871
• Other study ID #: Spiritual Care & Chronic Pain
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: October 22, 2018
• Est. completion date: November 13, 2019

Study information

• Verified date: December 2019
• Source: University of Zurich
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The World Health Organization's (WHO) understanding of health(care) is incrementally incorporating the spiritual dimensions equivalent to the physical, psychological and social ones. Yet, it remains widely neglected in multi-modal, interprofessional chronic pain therapy. To support gaining access to chronic pain patients' spiritual needs and concerns within therapy, a screening tool has been constructed based on foregoing qualitative research and literature. The screening tool is to be validated with chronic pain patients in clinical settings.

Description:

Addressing spiritual concerns and needs in chronic pain therapy is in line with the World Health Organization's (WHO) understanding of health(care) and would improve health care for this patient group. An applicable screening tool for chronic pain patients' spiritual concerns and needs must be empirically based. Based on preceding focus group interviews with patients and with health care professionals in various clinical settings and literature analysis, a screening tool has been constructed. This tool aims at supporting health care professionals as well as chronic pain patients in gaining access to spiritual concerns and needs for incorporation in multi-modal, interprofessional pain therapy. In this project the screening tools' psychometric properties will be tested with in five distinct clinical in- and out-patient settings.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 225
• Est. completion date: November 13, 2019
• Est. primary completion date: November 13, 2019
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Sufficient command of German language as assessed by local study coordinator

• Confirmed medical and/or nursing diagnosis of chronic pain

• Suffering pain for = 6 months

• Pain intensity was= 5 on a 11-point numeric Rating scale (NRS; 0 = no pain, 10 = worst pain imaginable) during the last episode of pain

Exclusion Criteria:

• Life threatening diagnosis (e.g. cancer) that would introduce end-of-life topics as primary aspect

• Cognitive disorders that would impair participation

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Chronic Pain
• Spirituality

Intervention

Other:
• Questionnaire validation
Participants will fill in the questionnaire "Spiritual Resources and Distress"plus additional questionnaires required for validation purposes. Three weeks later, a sub-sample will fill in the questionnaire one more time for consistency testing (test-retest)

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Switzerland	Zürcher RehaZentrum Davos	Davos	Graubünden
Switzerland	Klinik SGM Langenthal	Langenthal	Bern
Switzerland	Schweizer Paraplegiker Zentrum, Zentrum für Schmerzmedizin	Nottwil	Luzern
Switzerland	Arztpraxis Professor Sprott	Zürich
Switzerland	Universitätsspital Zürich, Institut für Anästhesiologie, Schmerzambulatorium	Zürich
Switzerland	Universitätsspital Zürich, Klinik für Konsiliarpsychiatrie und Psychosomatik	Zürich

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Zurich	Swiss National Science Foundation

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Switzerland, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Psychometric properties of "Spiritual Resources and Distress" questionnaire	Validity, internal consistency and stability of "Spiritual Resources and Distress" questionnaire	8 months