NCT05236179

Survey of Inpatients on Integrative Therapy Methods

Patient Survey on Integrative Therapy Methods - a Cross-sectional Study of Hospital Inpatients

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 127 (actual)
• Sponsor: ARCIM Institute Academic Research in Complementary and Integrative Medicine · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

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.

Conditions

• Patient Satisfaction and Experience With Integrative Therapies

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Integrative therapies	Integrative therapy methods used at the Filderklinik, such as music therapy, therapeutic painting, therapeutic sculptural forming, speech therapy, eurythmy therapy, rhythmical massage, external applications, coloured light therapy

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-02-15
• Primary completion: 2022-12-29
• Completion: 2022-12-29
• First posted: 2022-02-11
• Last updated: 2023-04-19

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Germany