Implementing Spiritual Care in Inpatient Palliative Care
Overview
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Status
- Completed
- Sponsor
- University Hospital Muenster
- Enrollment
- 100
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Feasibility of standardized and evidence-based recordation and implementation of Spiritual Care in Palliative Care
Overview
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.
Study Design
- Study Type
- Observational
- Observational Model
- Cohort
- Time Perspective
- Other
Eligibility Criteria
- Ages
- 18 Years to — (Adult, Older Adult)
- Sex
- All
- Accepts Healthy Volunteers
- No
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.
Arms & Interventions
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.
Intervention: Spiritual Needs Questionnaire (Other)
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.
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Feasibility of standardized and evidence-based recordation and implementation of Spiritual Care in Palliative Care
Time Frame: 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 Outcomes
- Recordation of needs for general / specialized spiritual care in palliative care(6 months)
- Examination of further descriptive and analysing comparisons of retrospective data and intervention group.(6 months)
- Differences in use and outcomes comparing standardised and non-standardised evaluation of spiritual care needs (comparison with retrospective data).(6 months)