NCT06206551

Implementing Spiritual Care in Inpatient Palliative Care

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 100 (actual)
• Sponsor: University Hospital Muenster · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

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.

Conditions

• Cancer
• Heart Failure
• Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
• Lateral Sclerosis

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Spiritual Needs Questionnaire	This questionnaire captures the spiritual needs of patients and is used in its short version (screener).This questionnaire is used as part of standard treatment for all palliative care inpatients.

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-12-01
• Primary completion: 2024-05-31
• Completion: 2024-12-31
• First posted: 2024-01-16
• Last updated: 2026-02-12

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Germany