The National Institutes of Health Measure of Healing Experience of All Life Stressors

NCT ID: NCT03871270

Last Updated: 2019-08-26

Study Results

Results pending

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Total Enrollment

200 participants

Study Classification

OBSERVATIONAL

Study Start Date

2017-06-15

Study Completion Date

2017-12-31

Brief Summary

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NIH-Healing Experience in All Life Stressors (NIH-HEALS) is a 35 item self-report questionnaire developed by the NIH Clinical Center Pain and Palliative care. It assesses an individual's mechanisms for coping as a means to reach "healing" during life's difficult situations and/or life limiting challenges. The factorial structure of the tool has been recently re-examined with 200 patients. The three main factors are: Connection (including religious, spiritual, interpersonal), Reflection/ Introspection, and Trust/Acceptance.

Detailed Description

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At the Clinical Center Pain and Palliative Care Service (PPCS) we have developed a pscyho-social-spiritual measure, the Healing Experience in all Life Stressors (HEALS), that focuses on the healing experience in people with severe and life limiting illness. We have validated this tool further in order to be able to identify those individuals who may benefit from additional interventions to cope with their illness and even assist them in reaching a healing experience that is possible even in the midst of their unfavorable circumstances. Identification of vulnerable individuals as well individuals who do have transformative experience after being diagnosed with severe and life limiting illness, has far-reaching impact on the quality of patient care for the very sick patients.

Conditions

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Severe Chronic Illness

Study Design

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Observational Model Type

OTHER

Study Time Perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Study Groups

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Participants

Those with severe chronic illnesses, which included but were not limited to various forms of advanced cancer, blood dyscrasias, graft vs. host disease, and rare genetic conditions.

No interventions assigned to this group

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Age of 18 or above
* The ability to read and write in English
* The presence or history of a serious and/or life-threatening disease
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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National Institutes of Health Clinical Center (CC)

NIH

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Ann Berger, M.D.

MSN, MD

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

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National Institute of Health

Bethesda, Maryland, United States

Site Status

Countries

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United States

References

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Egnew TR. The meaning of healing: transcending suffering. Ann Fam Med. 2005 May-Jun;3(3):255-62. doi: 10.1370/afm.313.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 15928230 (View on PubMed)

Park CL. Making sense of the meaning literature: an integrative review of meaning making and its effects on adjustment to stressful life events. Psychol Bull. 2010 Mar;136(2):257-301. doi: 10.1037/a0018301.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 20192563 (View on PubMed)

Skeath P, Norris S, Katheria V, White J, Baker K, Handel D, Sternberg E, Pollack J, Groninger H, Phillips J, Berger A. The nature of life-transforming changes among cancer survivors. Qual Health Res. 2013 Sep;23(9):1155-67. doi: 10.1177/1049732313499074. Epub 2013 Jul 17.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 23863850 (View on PubMed)

Sloan DH, BrintzenhofeSzoc K, Kichline T, Baker K, Pinzon JP, Tafe C, Li L, Cheng MJ, Berger A. An assessment of meaning in life-threatening illness: development of the Healing Experience in All Life Stressors (HEALS). Patient Relat Outcome Meas. 2017 Feb 16;8:15-21. doi: 10.2147/PROM.S118696. eCollection 2017.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 28243158 (View on PubMed)

Young WC, Nadarajah SR, Berger AM. Supportive medical care in life-threatening illness: A pilot study. Palliat Support Care. 2016 Dec;14(6):680-685. doi: 10.1017/S147895151600033X. Epub 2016 May 24.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 27215292 (View on PubMed)

Ameli R, Sinaii N, Luna MJ, Cheringal J, Gril B, Berger A. The National Institutes of Health measure of Healing Experience of All Life Stressors (NIH-HEALS): Factor analysis and validation. PLoS One. 2018 Dec 12;13(12):e0207820. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0207820. eCollection 2018.

Reference Type RESULT
PMID: 30540764 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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17-CC-00125

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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