Spiritual Assessment in Chronic Pain Patients

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

225 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2018-10-22

Study Completion Date

2019-11-13

Brief Summary

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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.

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Detailed Description

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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.

Conditions

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Chronic Pain Spirituality

Study Design

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Allocation Method

NA

Intervention Model

SINGLE_GROUP

Primary Study Purpose

OTHER

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Questionnaire validation

22-items questionnaire "Spiritual Resources and Distress"

Group Type OTHER

Questionnaire validation

Intervention Type OTHER

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)

Interventions

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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)

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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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

Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No