Intervention in Spirituality at the End of Life. The Kibo Protocol

University of Valencia

Status: Completed

Conditions: Palliative Care

Treatments: Other: Therapeutic interview: kibo protocol

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03995095

H1447334931417

Details and patient eligibility

About

This work aims to study the benefits that the therapeutic interview Kibo in palliative care patients can have for spirituality.

A parallel randomized controlled trial of two groups was performed. Information was collected on 60 palliative care patients during the moments before and after the intervention.

Enrollment: 60 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. To be 18 or more years of age.
2. Being in advanced or terminal disease phase (following World Health Organization criteria).
3. To have preserved cognitive capacity.
4. To have signed the informed consent.

Exclusion criteria

a) Estimated time of survival: Patients with a life expectancy of two weeks or less will not be intervened.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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60 participants in 2 patient groups

Control group

No Intervention group

Description:

Group of participants that received usual psychological attention.

Experimental group

Experimental group

Description:

Group of participants that received usual psychological attention plus attention of spiritual needs following the Kibo protocol (intervention).

Treatment:

Other: Therapeutic interview: kibo protocol