HOPE AND ACCEPTANCE AT THE END OF LIFE - IMPACT OF SPIRITUALITY ON PALLIATIVE CARE PATIENTS

Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra, E.P.E.

Status: Completed

Conditions: Hope; Spirituality; Acceptance

Treatments: Other: Approach to spirituality through hope and acceptance

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT07113899

CE-190/2024

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study aims to evaluate the hope and acceptance among patients visited by the Equipa Comunitária de Suporte em Cuidados Paliativos do Baixo Mondego. This study is a prospective longitudinal research study. The sample consisted of two groups: the Intervention Group, which included patients from the network of the Equipa Comunitária de Suporte em Cuidados Paliativos do Baixo Mondego (ECSCP-BM), and the Control Group, with selected patients from Unidade de Saúde Familiar Nautilus e Unidade de Saúde Familiar Coimbra Centro, with serious illness, comorbidities, and a poor prognosis. The patients chosen from ECSCP-BM were made up only of new patients referred to the team without any prior home consultations. The first questionnaire application took place during the first visit, and the second one was administered fourteen days later. The Primary Health Care patients were selected by invitation, and the questionnaire was administered. It included sociodemographic data, clinical data, the Herth Hope Index - PT and open questions.

Enrollment: 20 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• new referrals made by the family doctor to the community palliative care support team (which integrated the patient into the palliative care team network for the first time) - for the intervention group
• patients registered at the Nautilus Family Health Unit or Coimbra Centro Family Health Unit with serious pathology, comorbidities and reserved prognosis - for the control group

Exclusion criteria

• age under 18
• pregnancy
• altered state of consciousness or dementia
• low level of education

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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20 participants in 2 patient groups

ECSCP

Experimental group

Description:

Patients visited at home by the community palliative care support team

Treatment:

Other: Approach to spirituality through hope and acceptance

CSP

No Intervention group

Description:

Patients with follow-up consultations by primary health care