NCT06811376

Pilot Trial of Spiritual Care Interventions for Patients With Cancer

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 64 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Weill Medical College of Cornell University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This is a pilot trial of the effects of spiritual care interventions on spiritual well-being and readiness to engage in advance care planning (ACP) among black patients with advanced cancer recruited from outpatient settings to determine the feasibility of conducting a larger trial of effects of early integration of spiritual care into outpatient oncology care on patient outcomes.

Detailed description

This will be a pilot, stratified block randomized controlled trial of the effects of healthcare chaplain services on spiritual well-being and advance care planning (ACP) among black advanced cancer patients (N=64) in outpatient settings at two medical institutions: NYP/Brooklyn Methodist Hospital (BMH) and the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB). The investigators will randomly assign patients in a 1:1 ratio to either the Spiritual Care Intervention #1 or Spiritual Care Intervention #2 arm of the trial. Intervention details are being withheld until the trial concludes to protect the scientific integrity of the study. Trial outcomes will be assessed at the primary endpoint, 2 months after the onset of the spiritual care intervention.

Conditions

• Advanced Cancer

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Spiritual Care Intervention #1	Experimental
OTHER	Spiritual Care Intervention #2	Active Comparator

Timeline

• Start date: 2025-02-13
• Primary completion: 2027-04-01
• Completion: 2027-04-01
• First posted: 2025-02-06
• Last updated: 2026-03-25

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: United States