Implementing Spiritual Care in Inpatient Palliative Care

Recruiting

• Conditions: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease; Cancer; Heart Failure; Lateral Sclerosis
• Interventions: Other: Spiritual Needs Questionnaire

• Registration Number: NCT06206551
• Lead Sponsor: University Hospital Muenster

Brief Summary

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

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2023-12-01
• Status Verified: 2024-01
• Study First Submitted: 2024-01-04
• Study First Submitted QC: 2024-01-04
• Last Update Submitted: 2024-01-04
• Study First Posted: 2024-01-16
• Last Update Posted: 2024-01-16
• Primary Completion: 2024-05-31
• Study Completion: 2024-12-31

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: RECRUITING
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 300

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.

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Prospective patients	Spiritual Needs Questionnaire	Patients who are on the palliative care ward or who are being treated by the palliative consultation service at the University Hospital Muenster.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Feasibility of standardized and evidence-based recordation and implementation of Spiritual Care in Palliative Care	6 months	Feasibility of standardized and evidence-based recordation and implementation of Spiritual Care in Palliative Care based on the number of interventions provided by general and/or specialized Spiritual Care for patients with ascertained needs detected by the validated Spiritual Needs Questionnaire in German language.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Recordation of needs for general / specialized spiritual care in palliative care	6 months	Recordation of needs for general / specialized spiritual care in palliative care consultation service and palliative ward of a university tertiary care hospital.
Examination of further descriptive and analysing comparisons of retrospective data and intervention group.	6 months	s. title
Differences in use and outcomes comparing standardised and non-standardised evaluation of spiritual care needs (comparison with retrospective data).	6 months	s. title

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

University Hospital Muenster; 🇩🇪 Muenster, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany