Engineering Whole Health Into Hospital Care - University of Michigan

NCT ID: NCT07215117

Last Updated: 2025-11-12

Study Results

Results pending

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

RECRUITING

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

300 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2025-09-10

Study Completion Date

2026-03-31

Brief Summary

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The purpose of this study is to test an intervention focused on improving patients' wellness and satisfaction with their hospital stay. As part of this study, patients hospitalized on specific hospital units will be asked to participate in the study intervention. This will help the researchers learn if the items offered will help improve patients' satisfaction with their hospital stay.

Detailed Description

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Whole Health is a model designed to address multiple patient needs. This includes physical and spiritual wellness, personal surroundings, nutrition, relationships, and mental wellness. The Whole Health approach focuses on improving overall patient wellness and includes increased availability of complementary and alternative medicine services. While some Whole Health work is being done at outpatient facilities, this study seeks to expand and test this approach to the inpatient setting, given the potential Whole Health has for addressing patient wellness.

The goal of this study is to implement and evaluate an inpatient Whole Health Bundle intervention to improve hospitalized patients' well-being. This study will assess if implementing an Inpatient Whole Health Bundle is associated with improved patient-centric outcomes (such as perceptions of the healing environment and patient satisfaction) among hospitalized patients.

This is a quasi-experimental pre-test/post-test trial. The study will be conducted at one medical unit at the University of Michigan hospital. Study subjects will be hospitalized patients. The study will be conducted in 2 phases- pre-intervention and intervention. Each study phase will last 1-2-months. During the pre-intervention phase, a sample of patients recently discharged from the hospital will be mailed a study survey. The survey will ask questions about their satisfaction with their hospital stay.

During the intervention phase, patients staying in the hospital will be asked if they would like to participate in the study. Participants will be offered a menu of items and services that could help improve their overall well-being and their hospital stay. Patient will be free to choose or decline any of the items on the menu. A researcher will record which items, if any, a patient selects. Patients in the intervention will be mailed the same study survey as the pre- intervention phase after they are discharged from the hospital. Researchers will compare patient satisfaction responses between patients staying in the hospital during the pre- intervention phase to those who participated in the intervention. A few patients will be asked to participate in a study interview. The interviews are to better understand intervention experiences as well as barriers and facilitators to improving patient satisfaction with their hospital stay. In addition, unit level metrics will be assessed between the pre-intervention and intervention time periods.

Conditions

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Whole Health

Keywords

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Holistic Health Hospitalization Patient Satisfaction

Study Design

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Allocation Method

NON_RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

quasi-experimental pre-test/post-test design Note: 150 participants will give their consent for a post implementation survey. 150 participants will send their survey response in thus implying their consent to participate in the research survey. This equals 300 anticipated participants.
Primary Study Purpose

SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Whole Health Intervention Participants

Hospitalized patients on the intervention units will be offered participation in the Inpatient Whole Health Bundle.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Inpatient Whole Health Bundle

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Hospitalized patients on the intervention units will be offered participation in the Inpatient Whole Health Bundle, which is comprised of a variety of offerings aimed at improving the wellbeing of the patient. They can choose to use any or none of the bundle elements.

Pre-Intervention Participants

Randomly selected patients who had been discharged within the 1-2 months prior to the intervention will be recruited to provide information via a survey.

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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Inpatient Whole Health Bundle

Hospitalized patients on the intervention units will be offered participation in the Inpatient Whole Health Bundle, which is comprised of a variety of offerings aimed at improving the wellbeing of the patient. They can choose to use any or none of the bundle elements.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* hospitalized patients on medical and medical/surgical units at the University of Michigan Health System

Exclusion Criteria

* patients that cannot speak English
* patients that are cognitively impaired or unable to provide their own consent
* patients that are under respiratory contact precautions.
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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University of Michigan

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Sanjay Saint

Professor of Internal Medicine

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Sanjay Saint, MD, MPH

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University of Michigan

Locations

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University of Michigan

Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

Site Status RECRUITING

Countries

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United States

Central Contacts

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Karen Fowler, MPH

Role: CONTACT

Phone: 734-845-3611

Email: [email protected]

Latoya Kuhn, MPH

Role: CONTACT

Email: [email protected]

Facility Contacts

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Karen Fowler, MPH

Role: primary

Other Identifiers

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1R18HS028963-01

Identifier Type: AHRQ

Identifier Source: secondary_id

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HUM00270511

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id