Spiritual Care in Improving Quality of Life of Patients, Caregivers, and Hospital Staff

City of Hope

Status: Completed

Conditions: Malignant Neoplasm

Treatments: Procedure: psychosocial assessment and care; Other: questionnaire administration; Other: survey administration; Other: counseling intervention; Other: psychosocial support for caregiver; Procedure: spiritual therapy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT01432431

NCI-2011-02730 (Registry Identifier)

11110 (Registry Identifier)

Details and patient eligibility

About

This clinical trial studies spiritual care in improving quality of life of patients, caregivers, and hospital staff. Spiritual care may help understand the impact cancer and its treatment has on patients, caregivers and hospital staff.

Full description

OBJECTIVES:

I. To improve the quality of spiritual care provided by palliative care teams. II. To measure the effectiveness of integrating spiritual care recommendations in palliative care at City of Hope (COH) and the impact it has on cancer patients, families, and hospital staff.

OUTLINE:

The expanded psychosocial/spiritual assessment administered by social workers includes a spiritual history and a spiritual needs screening. Social worker knowledge and competence is surveyed at baseline, immediately after the course, and after a bedside chaplain-mentoring process. Inpatient cancer patients' and their caregivers' perceptions about spiritual care is surveyed at baseline prior to the social work curriculum and after the course has been completed and the new psychosocial/spiritual assessment has been implemented. Data collected from patients, family members, and staff includes number of unduplicated palliative care patients screened for spiritual concerns, spiritual history, number and type of spiritual issues, number of referrals to the chaplain, number seen by the chaplain, number of unduplicated palliative care patients with documented spiritual care plan, number of staff development sessions offered and topics, attendance per topic, advance directives, and referrals to hospice.

Enrollment: 100 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Admitted during the study quarter
• Admitted >= 5 days
• English speaking
• Alert and able to answer questions

Exclusion criteria

• Non-cancer diagnosis
• Previously accrued to study

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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100 participants in 1 patient group

Supportive care (spiritual care)

Experimental group

Description:

See Detailed Description.

Treatment:

Other: questionnaire administration

Procedure: spiritual therapy

Other: counseling intervention

Other: survey administration

Other: psychosocial support for caregiver

Procedure: psychosocial assessment and care