Patient Survey on Integrative Therapy Methods - a Cross-sectional Study of Hospital Inpatients
Trial Snapshot
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Status
- Completed
- Sponsor
- Enrollment
- 127
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Patient satisfaction, ZUF-8 total score
Study Overview
Brief Summary
Observational study of general patient satisfaction and inpatients' experiences with integrative therapies. The study recruits inpatients of the Filderklinik, an anthroposophic hospital in southwestern Germany. The aim is to assess overall patient satisfaction and inpatients' experiences with integrative therapies at the Filderklinik.
Detailed Description
This is a cross-sectional study to investigate general patient satisfaction and inpatients' experiences with integrative therapies in an anthroposophic hospital. Participants will be recruited at the Filderklinik, a hospital in southwestern Germany that uses anthroposophic medicine (AM) on a broad basis. Inpatients who have received at least 10 treatments with one or more of the different integrative therapy methods will be asked for their willingness to participate. After providing written informed consent, participants will complete a questionnaire on integrative therapies received and overall patient satisfaction. In addition, data from the clinic database will be analyzed and cross-checked with the questionnaire data to verify and specify information about the participating sample. The focus of the study is to assess general patient satisfaction and experience with integrative therapy methods among inpatients at the Filderklinik.
Study Design
- Study Type
- Observational
- Observational Model
- Cohort
- Time Perspective
- Cross Sectional
Eligibility Criteria
- Ages
- 18 Years to — (Adult, Older Adult)
- Sex
- All
- Accepts Healthy Volunteers
- No
Inclusion Criteria
- •Written informed consent
- •Filderklinik inpatient who had at least 10 treatments with one ore more of the integrative therapy methods
- •Age 18 years or older
Exclusion Criteria
- •Insufficient German language skills
- •Legally incapacitated patients
- •Patients who are physically incapable of giving written consent
- •Patients in isolation wards
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Patient satisfaction, ZUF-8 total score
Time Frame: Assessing the entire duration of the hospital stay, an average of 7 days.
Patient satisfaction, measured with the ZUF-8 patient satisfaction questionnaire, a validated questionnaire (German language) with 8 items related to overall patient satisfaction associated with an inpatient hospital stay. Items are rated on 4-point scales from positive to negative (no "neutral" position), with 1 being the least positive and 4 being the most positive value (total scale range 8-32). In the current study, the ZUF-8 is part of the comprehensive "Special Therapy Procedures" questionnaire, which covers all outcome measures not retrieved from the clinic database.
Secondary Outcomes
- Diagnoses(Assessing the entire duration of the hospital stay, an average of 7 days.)
- Patient experience with music therapy(Assessing the entire duration of the hospital stay, an average of 7 days.)
- Patient experience with therapeutic painting(Assessing the entire duration of the hospital stay, an average of 7 days.)
- Patient experience with coloured light therapy(Assessing the entire duration of the hospital stay, an average of 7 days.)
- Patient experience with the timing of integrative therapies(Assessing the entire duration of the hospital stay, an average of 7 days.)
- Therapies(Assessing the entire duration of the hospital stay, an average of 7 days.)
- OPS codings(Assessing the entire duration of the hospital stay, an average of 7 days.)
- Inpatient admitting department(At the time of admission to the Filderklinik, at the beginning of hospitalization (an average of 7 days).)
- Integrative therapies according to clinic database(Assessing the entire duration of the hospital stay, an average of 7 days.)
- Patient experience with therapeutic sculptural forming(Assessing the entire duration of the hospital stay, an average of 7 days.)
- Patient experience with speech therapy(Assessing the entire duration of the hospital stay, an average of 7 days.)
- Patient experience with eurythmy therapy(Assessing the entire duration of the hospital stay, an average of 7 days.)
- Patient experience with external applications(Assessing the entire duration of the hospital stay, an average of 7 days.)
- Patient experience with rhythmical massage(Assessing the entire duration of the hospital stay, an average of 7 days.)
- Patient experience with therapy plan communication(Assessing the entire duration of the hospital stay, an average of 7 days.)
- Difference in patient satisfaction: prior experience with AM vs. no prior experience with AM(Assessing the entire duration of the hospital stay, an average of 7 days.)
- Difference in patient satisfaction: Filderklinik chosen for treatment with AM vs. Filderklinik chosen for other reasons(Assessing the entire duration of the hospital stay, an average of 7 days.)