Implementing Spiritual Care in Inpatient Palliative Care

NCT ID: NCT06206551

Last Updated: 2024-01-16

Study Results

Results pending

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

RECRUITING

Total Enrollment

300 participants

Study Classification

OBSERVATIONAL

Study Start Date

2023-12-01

Study Completion Date

2024-12-31

Brief Summary

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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.

Detailed Description

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Conditions

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Cancer Heart Failure Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Lateral Sclerosis

Study Design

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Observational Model Type

COHORT

Study Time Perspective

OTHER

Study Groups

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Prospective patients

Patients who are on the palliative care ward or who are being treated by the palliative consultation service at the University Hospital Muenster.

Spiritual Needs Questionnaire

Intervention Type OTHER

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.

Restrospective patients

Patients who were on the palliative care ward or were treated by the palliative consultation service at University Hospital Muenster during the same period in the previous year.

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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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.

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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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.
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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University Hospital Muenster

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Philipp Lenz, Prof. Dr. med.

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University Hospital Muenster

Locations

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University Hospital Muenster

Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Site Status RECRUITING

Countries

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Germany

Central Contacts

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Philipp Lenz, Prof. Dr. med.

Role: CONTACT

+49 (0)251 8353052

Facility Contacts

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Philipp Lenz, Prof. Dr. med.

Role: primary

+49 (0)251 8353052

Other Identifiers

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2023-465-b-S

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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