Spiritual Care in Improving Quality of Life of Patients, Caregivers, and Hospital Staff
NCT ID: NCT01432431
Last Updated: 2013-09-05
Study Results
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Basic Information
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COMPLETED
NA
100 participants
INTERVENTIONAL
2011-10-31
2013-09-30
Brief Summary
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Detailed Description
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I. To improve the quality of spiritual care provided by palliative care teams. II. To measure the effectiveness of integrating spiritual care recommendations in palliative care at City of Hope (COH) and the impact it has on cancer patients, families, and hospital staff.
OUTLINE:
The expanded psychosocial/spiritual assessment administered by social workers includes a spiritual history and a spiritual needs screening. Social worker knowledge and competence is surveyed at baseline, immediately after the course, and after a bedside chaplain-mentoring process. Inpatient cancer patients' and their caregivers' perceptions about spiritual care is surveyed at baseline prior to the social work curriculum and after the course has been completed and the new psychosocial/spiritual assessment has been implemented. Data collected from patients, family members, and staff includes number of unduplicated palliative care patients screened for spiritual concerns, spiritual history, number and type of spiritual issues, number of referrals to the chaplain, number seen by the chaplain, number of unduplicated palliative care patients with documented spiritual care plan, number of staff development sessions offered and topics, attendance per topic, advance directives, and referrals to hospice.
Conditions
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Study Design
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NA
SINGLE_GROUP
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
NONE
Study Groups
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Supportive care (spiritual care)
See Detailed Description.
spiritual therapy
Undergo palliative spiritual care
questionnaire administration
Ancillary studies
survey administration
Ancillary studies
counseling intervention
Undergo palliative spiritual care
psychosocial support for caregiver
Undergo palliative spiritual care
psychosocial assessment and care
Undergo palliative spiritual care
Interventions
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spiritual therapy
Undergo palliative spiritual care
questionnaire administration
Ancillary studies
survey administration
Ancillary studies
counseling intervention
Undergo palliative spiritual care
psychosocial support for caregiver
Undergo palliative spiritual care
psychosocial assessment and care
Undergo palliative spiritual care
Other Intervention Names
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Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria
* Admitted \>= 5 days
* English speaking
* Alert and able to answer questions
Exclusion Criteria
* Previously accrued to study
18 Years
ALL
Yes
Sponsors
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National Cancer Institute (NCI)
NIH
City of Hope Medical Center
OTHER
Responsible Party
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Principal Investigators
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Jay Thomas
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
City of Hope Medical Center
Locations
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City of Hope Medical Center
Duarte, California, United States
Countries
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Other Identifiers
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NCI-2011-02730
Identifier Type: REGISTRY
Identifier Source: secondary_id
11110
Identifier Type: -
Identifier Source: org_study_id