NCT01432431

Spiritual Care in Improving Quality of Life of Patients, Caregivers, and Hospital Staff

Archstone Spiritual Care Demonstration Project: Outcomes for Patients, Families, and Staff

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 100 (actual)
• Sponsor: City of Hope Medical Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This clinical trial studies spiritual care in improving quality of life of patients, caregivers, and hospital staff. Spiritual care may help understand the impact cancer and its treatment has on patients, caregivers and hospital staff.

Detailed description

OBJECTIVES: I. To improve the quality of spiritual care provided by palliative care teams. II. To measure the effectiveness of integrating spiritual care recommendations in palliative care at City of Hope (COH) and the impact it has on cancer patients, families, and hospital staff. OUTLINE: The expanded psychosocial/spiritual assessment administered by social workers includes a spiritual history and a spiritual needs screening. Social worker knowledge and competence is surveyed at baseline, immediately after the course, and after a bedside chaplain-mentoring process. Inpatient cancer patients' and their caregivers' perceptions about spiritual care is surveyed at baseline prior to the social work curriculum and after the course has been completed and the new psychosocial/spiritual assessment has been implemented. Data collected from patients, family members, and staff includes number of unduplicated palliative care patients screened for spiritual concerns, spiritual history, number and type of spiritual issues, number of referrals to the chaplain, number seen by the chaplain, number of unduplicated palliative care patients with documented spiritual care plan, number of staff development sessions offered and topics, attendance per topic, advance directives, and referrals to hospice.

Conditions

• Malignant Neoplasm

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	spiritual therapy	Undergo palliative spiritual care
OTHER	questionnaire administration	Ancillary studies
OTHER	survey administration	Ancillary studies
OTHER	counseling intervention	Undergo palliative spiritual care
OTHER	psychosocial support for caregiver	Undergo palliative spiritual care
PROCEDURE	psychosocial assessment and care	Undergo palliative spiritual care

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-10-01
• Primary completion: 2013-09-01
• Completion: 2013-09-01
• First posted: 2011-09-13
• Last updated: 2013-09-05

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States