Implementing Spiritual Care in Inpatient Palliative Care
NCT ID: NCT06206551
Last Updated: 2024-01-16
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Basic Information
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RECRUITING
300 participants
OBSERVATIONAL
2023-12-01
2024-12-31
Brief Summary
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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.
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Detailed Description
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Conditions
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Study Design
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COHORT
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
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.
Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria
* 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
* 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.
18 Years
ALL
No
Sponsors
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University Hospital Muenster
OTHER
Responsible Party
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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
Countries
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Central Contacts
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Facility Contacts
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Other Identifiers
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2023-465-b-S
Identifier Type: -
Identifier Source: org_study_id
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